About the Authors

Tilo Schwalger

tilo@pks.mpg.de

Affiliation Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Karin Fisch

Affiliation Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jan Benda

Affiliation Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Benjamin Lindner

Affiliation Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS KF JB BL. Analyzed the data: TS KF. Wrote the paper: TS KF JB BL. Performed mathematical analysis: TS BL. Simulations of integrate-and-fire model: TS. Simulations of conductance-based model: KF.