About the Authors

Diego Fasoli

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Fasoli, Anna Cattani

diego.fasoli@iit.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Computation, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy

Anna Cattani

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Fasoli, Anna Cattani

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Computation, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy

Stefano Panzeri

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Computation, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DF AC. Wrote the paper: DF AC SP. Conceived and designed the study: DF AC SP. Performed the study: DF AC. Contributed materials/analysis tools: DF AC. Performed the analytical study and wrote the Python script (S1 File): DF. Performed the numerical study by means of XPPAUT and Cl_Matcont: AC.