Pith Number

pith:TYS6JH2Y

pith:2015:TYS6JH2YBVOXMU25KDEEPN2CKX

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The Brain Uses Reliability of Stimulus Information when Making Perceptual Decisions

Sebastian Bitzer, Stefan J. Kiebel

arxiv:1509.01972 v1 · 2015-09-07 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TYS6JH2YBVOXMU25KDEEPN2CKX}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:33:50.016567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e25e49f580d5d76535d50c847b74255f62c2bdb0647bc75fb3e6617f63c1a75

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.01972 · arxiv_version: 1509.01972v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.01972 · pith_short_12: TYS6JH2YBVOX · pith_short_16: TYS6JH2YBVOXMU25 · pith_short_8: TYS6JH2Y

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TYS6JH2YBVOXMU25KDEEPN2CKX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 9e25e49f580d5d76535d50c847b74255f62c2bdb0647bc75fb3e6617f63c1a75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cffc439d70ec16239e422bf3e7b8bd88a7118d35226554f1e5cf0daeb9a196ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-07T10:21:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "217c652bc0f7265dae0c7dd01fb1273b42ac6caeff461ae19fed033c7059bc9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.01972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}