About the Authors

Olav Stetter

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Georg August University, Physics Department, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany

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

Jordi Soriano

Affiliation Departament d'ECM , Facultat de F?sica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Theo Geisel

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Georg August University, Physics Department, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the models and the simulations: OS DB. Performed the simulations: OS. Conceived and designed the experiments: JS. Performed the experiments: JS. Analyzed the data: OS. Wrote the paper: OS DB JS TG.