About the Authors

David Babineau

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

John E Lewis

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: john.lewis@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada , Center for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

André Longtin

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada , Center for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DB, JEL, and AL conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper. DB performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and contributed analysis tools. Note that this is a modeling study, so by “experiments,” we mean “simulations.”