About the Authors

Hinrich Arnoldt

Affiliations Network Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Göttingen, Germany, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, Faculty of Physics, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Shuwen Chang

Affiliation Department of Membrane Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Sven Jahnke

Affiliations Network Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Göttingen, Germany, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, Faculty of Physics, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Birk Urmersbach

Affiliation Network Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Göttingen, Germany

Holger Taschenberger

Affiliation Department of Membrane Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Marc Timme

timme@nld.ds.mpg.de

Affiliations Network Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), Göttingen, Germany, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, Faculty of Physics, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HA SC SJ BU HT MT. Performed the experiments: HA SC SJ BU. Analyzed the data: HA SC SJ BU HT MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HA SC SJ BU HT MT. Wrote the paper: HA HT MT. Developed the theory: HA MT.