“…If the induced events e i,m are distributed in event space E i less locally, with the e i,m located on different, possibly non-adjacent patches in E i , we systematically collect only those events that are located close to selected reference events e i,r [29]. To check performance, we systematically varied how irregular spike timing patterns are by varying the overall coupling strength by a factor of 30, effectively interpolating between regimes close to regular dynamics (locking) [30] for small coupling and close to irregular balanced states [12,[31][32][33] for large coupling. If sufficiently many events (ISI-CSI combinations) that are close in event space occur in the network's spike timing patterns, sampling the events in some local region (or, alternatively, local regions) in event space may be compensated by longer recording times or collecting several patches of events.…”