About the Authors

Tatiana Malashchenko

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Andrey Shilnikov

Affiliations The Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gennady Cymbalyuk

gcymbalyuk@gsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, The Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: TM GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM GC. Wrote the paper: TM AS GC. Provided substantial contribution to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data: TM AS GC. Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content: TM AS GC. Provided final approval of the version to be published: TM AS GC.