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The result was delete. CitiCat ^♫ 02:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Polychronization[edit]

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Polychronization is a term used by one person, Eugene Izhikevich. It is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a commonly accepted term. Hardly anyone in neuroscience has ever even heard of this term, and it is debatable whether the term is even useful since alternative terms have been used to describe precise temporal relations between spikes. Do a Pubmed search for the term, polychronization, and the only thing that comes up is the one paper by Eugene Izhikevich. Clearly this term, polychronization, is not significant to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia. Maybe if the term becomes more widely adopted within the neuroscience community, then I'll change my mind. Placedood 03:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as nn WP:OR. Leibniz 19:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or merge into an appropriate neuroscience article. If the term is not commonly used by other neuroscientists, it shouldn't have an article starting with "in neuroscience, polychronization is...". But the information about the spikes (whatever you call them) might be mentioned somewhere else. (I'm not a neuroscientist). Han-Kwang (t) 20:43, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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