About the Authors

Itai Hayut

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Neurobiology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva, Israel, Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Erika E. Fanselow

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Barry W. Connors

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

David Golomb

golomb@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Neurobiology and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: IH EEF BWC DG. Formulated the research questions: IH EEF BWC DG. Constructed the model and the theory: IH DG. Performed the simulations and the analytical calculations: IH DG.