About the Authors

Chuan Xue

cxue@math.osu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Blerta Shtylla

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States of America

Anthony Brown

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CX BS AB. Wrote the paper: CX AB. Estimated the parameters: CX BS AB. Developed the code: CX BS. Performed the simulations: CX. Interpreted the data: CX AB.