About the Authors

Srdjan Ostojic

so2310@columbia.edu

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris-Diderot, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Nicolas Brunel

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, CNRS UMR 8119, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO NB. Performed the experiments: SO. Analyzed the data: SO. Wrote the paper: SO NB.