About the Authors

Michael Rule

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Matthew Stoffregen

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America,

Bard Ermentrout

bard@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America,

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BE. Performed the experiments: MR MS BE. Analyzed the data: MR MS BE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR BE. Wrote the paper: BE. Designed code for the 2D simulations: MR.