About the Authors

Demian Battaglia

demian@nld.ds.mpg.de

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany

Annette Witt

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Fred Wolf

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany

Theo Geisel

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: DB AW FW TG. Conceived and designed the models: DB FW TG. Contributed statistical tools: AW. Performed simulations: DB. Analyzed simulation results: DB AW.