“…For the lateral interactions, w ij describes the synaptic weight between neurons, and n is the number of nodes. The model also includes leakage (Ϫu), with decay time constant , effectively setting how fast activity can rise or fall, a constant u 0 describing the initial state (here set to 0), and noise, which varies at each time step (random walk), where is a normally distributed random variable ϭ N(0,1), whose amplitude is modulated by a (for details, see Trappenberg et al, 2001;Satel et al, 2011). The key difference between this model and models like ALIGATER is that target stimuli elicit, within the same population of interconnected neurons, a dual input signal causing a rapid and transient exogenous (automatic) rise in activity, followed by a sustained endogenous (selective) rise, which together make the accumulation to threshold highly nonlinear ( Fig.…”