About the Authors

Tom Tetzlaff

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom Tetzlaff, Moritz Helias

t.tetzlaff@fz-juelich.de

Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany, CIGENE, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Moritz Helias

Contributed equally to this work with: Tom Tetzlaff, Moritz Helias

Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany, RIKEN Brain Science Institute and Brain and Neural Systems Team, RIKEN Computational Science Research Program, Wako, Japan

Gaute T. Einevoll

Affiliation CIGENE, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Markus Diesmann

Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany, RIKEN Brain Science Institute and Brain and Neural Systems Team, RIKEN Computational Science Research Program, Wako, Japan, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT MH GTE MD. Performed the experiments: TT MH. Analyzed the data: TT MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT MH. Wrote the paper: TT MH GTE MD. Performed the mathematical analysis and simulations: TT MH.