About the Authors

Moritz Helias

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz Helias, Moritz Deger

helias@brain.riken.jp

Affiliation RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako City, Japan

Moritz Deger

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritz Helias, Moritz Deger

Affiliation Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany

Stefan Rotter

Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany, Computational Neuroscience Lab, Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany

Markus Diesmann

Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako City, Japan, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Freiburg, Germany, Brain and Neural Systems Team, RIKEN Computational Science Research Program, Wako City, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: M. Helias, M. Deger. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Helias, M. Deger. Wrote the paper: M. Helias, M. Deger, S. Rotter, M. Diesmann. Performed the analytic analysis and simulations: M. Helias, M. Deger. Supervised the theoretical analysis and simulations: S. Rotter, M. Diesmann.