About the Authors

Michael Graupner

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michael.graupner@univ-paris5.fr

Affiliations Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire de Neurophysique et Physiologie, Paris, France , CNRS, UMR 8119, Paris, France , Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany

Nicolas Brunel

Affiliations Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire de Neurophysique et Physiologie, Paris, France , CNRS, UMR 8119, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

NB and MG conceived and designed the model. MG performed the simulations and analyzed the data. MG and NB wrote the paper.