Basin assignments are reproducible across stimulus repeats and across subnetworks.

<p>(<b>A</b>) Most frequently occurring MS patterns collected from 30 subnetworks of size <i>N</i> = 120 out of a total population of 160 neurons; patterns have been clustered into 12 clusters (colors). (<b>B</b>) The probability (across stimulus repeats) that the population is in a particular basin of attraction at any given time. Each line corresponds to one pattern from (A); patterns belonging to the same cluster are depicted in the same color. Inset shows the detailed structure of several transitions out of the all-silent state; overlapping lines of the same color show that the same transition is identified robustly across different subnetwork choices of 120 neurons out of 160. (<b>C</b>) On about half of the time bins, the population is in the all-silent basin; on the remaining time bins, the coherence (the probability of being in the dominant basin divided by the probability of being in every possible non-silent basin) is high. (<b>D</b>) The average autocorrelation function of traces in (B), showing the typical time the population stays within a basin (dashed red line is best exponential fit with <i>τ</i> = 48 ms, or about 2.5 time bins).