About the Authors

Alberto Romagnoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Romagnoni, Jérôme Ribot

alberto.romagnoni@college-de-france.fr

Affiliations Mathematical Neuroscience Team, CIRB—Collège de France (CNRS UMR 7241, INSERM U1050, Labex MEMOLIFE), PSL, Paris, France, Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire des Neurosciences Cognitives, INSERM Unité 960, Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, PSL, Paris, France

Jérôme Ribot

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Romagnoni, Jérôme Ribot

Affiliation Mathematical Neuroscience Team, CIRB—Collège de France (CNRS UMR 7241, INSERM U1050, Labex MEMOLIFE), PSL, Paris, France

Daniel Bennequin

‡DB and JT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Géométrie et dynamique, Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII), Paris, France

Jonathan Touboul

‡DB and JT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Mathematical Neuroscience Team, CIRB—Collège de France (CNRS UMR 7241, INSERM U1050, Labex MEMOLIFE), PSL, Paris, France, INRIA Mycenae Team, Paris-Rocquencourt, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR. Performed the experiments: JR. Analyzed the data: AR JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR. Wrote the paper: AR JR DB JT. Designed the model: AR JR DB JT. Performed the simulations: AR. Performed the mathematical analyses: DB JT. Supervised the project: DB JT.