About the Authors

Grishma Palkar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jian-young Wu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Bard Ermentrout

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

phase@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.