About the Authors

Yael Katz

Affiliation Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

William L Kath

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America , Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Nelson Spruston

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Michael E Hasselmo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hasselmo@bu.edu

Affiliation Center for Memory and Brain, Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

All authors conceived and designed the simulations. YK performed the simulations, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. WLK, NS, and MEH guided the research.