{
  "record_type": "Unregistered editable planning template",
  "version": "0.1",
  "created_date": "2026-10-18",
  "registration_url": null,
  "registration_timestamp": null,
  "data_access_before_registration": "Fill in what was already seen; bundled demonstration is synthetic and already available.",
  "investigator": "TO COMPLETE",
  "measurement_dataset": "TO COMPLETE: dataset ID, provenance, version, and checksum",
  "primary_outcome": "TO COMPLETE",
  "minimum_meaningful_effect": "TO COMPLETE with units",
  "sample_size_and_reason": "TO COMPLETE before confirmatory data",
  "stopping_rule": "TO COMPLETE",
  "exclusions": "TO COMPLETE before data inspection",
  "randomization_and_blinding": "TO COMPLETE",
  "deviations": [],
  "empirical_results": null,
  "title": "Retained-state benchmark with matched controls",
  "hypothesis_ids": [
    "H03"
  ],
  "local_question": "Can a defined probe distinguish trained from matched untrained states at declared delays?",
  "scope": "Specific substrate and transformation; passive relaxation is not universal memory or learning.",
  "model": "Positive paired mean differences; weighted log-linear exponential with small-noise delta approximation.",
  "baseline": "Zero-difference contrast plus passive exponential relaxation; neither is a universal account.",
  "required_covariates": [
    "write procedure",
    "sham training",
    "reset validation",
    "probe disturbance",
    "delay calibration",
    "condition-specific offsets",
    "independent pair identity"
  ],
  "uncertainty": "Independent readout noise and matched shared offsets; positive means required; no silent exclusion of nonpositive results.",
  "held_out_plan": "TO COMPLETE: new delays, fresh runs and a specified transformation.",
  "failure_rule": "TO COMPLETE: meaningful retained difference and controls; leakage or a condition-specific offset defeats the intended interpretation.",
  "sources": [
    "information-info-keim2019",
    "methods-method-uncertainty",
    "methods-method-prereg"
  ]
}