“…Many different approaches are possible to capture brain dynamics at the mesoscopic scale [Bandyopadhyay et al, 2021, Brunel and Hakim, 2015, Cakan and Obermayer, 2021, El Boustani and Destexhe, 2009, Huang and Lin, 2018, Montbrió et al, 2015, Nykamp and Tranchina, 2000, Schmutz et al, 2020, Schwalger and Chizhov, 2019, Wilson and Cowan, 1972], and each of these approaches is relevant to capture specific features of the dynamics of spiking networks. Some specificities of the mean-field methods studied here are the possibility of considering the sparse connectivity, conductance-based interactions and the finite size of the populations.…”