Table 2. Comparison of our baseline model with seminal studies.

PF width was reported as half-max in the original studies, which we converted to PF sd for comparison (sd = half-max width / 2.355).

	Mehta et al. 2000	Yu et al. 2006	Model 1 (Fig 2C)
Nb of simulations	not reported	not reported	100
Nb of laps	20	20	30
Track Length (cm)	200	200	300
Speed (cm/s)	50	not reported	15
Inputs
N (nb of inputs)	100	1000	100
Neuron Type	Rate (gaussian current)	Poisson spiking from gaussian rate	Poisson spiking from gaussian rate
${\mathrm{PF}}_{\mathrm{in}}$ sd (cm)	12.7 cm	3, 12.7 and 30 cm	18 cm
Peak ${\mathrm{FR}}_{\mathrm{in}}$	\	not reported	10 Hz
Initial Connectivity	Gaussian - unreported SD	Gaussian or Skewed - unreported SD	Gaussian: SD = 10 i.n.
Synaptic Efficacy (unit)	EPSC (Amps)	unitless G	EPSC (Amps)
Max input	1 nA	not reported	85 pA
Output
Neuron Type	Rate	Spiking (LIF, parameters unclear)	Spiking (LIF, Song et al. 2000 parameters)
Spike-Rate Adaptation	Yes (Wang 1998 method)	No and Yes (Dayan & Abbott method)	No
Inhibition	Oscillatory (8Hz)	Divisive	No
Peak FRout	high (~50Hz on lap 1)	high (~ 50 to 100Hz)	realistic (~10 Hz)
Plasticity	STDP	STDP	STDP
Implementation	lap integration	local eligibility (Song et al. 2000)	local eligibility (Song et al. 2000)
${\mathrm{A}}_{\mathrm{STDP}}$ (Max Potentiation)	0.6% of ${\mathrm{EPSC}}_{\max }=0.6\text{pA}$	0.5% of ${\mathrm{G}}_{\max }$	0.5% of ${\mathrm{EPSC}}_{\max }=0.425\text{pA}$
Minimum Depression	−0.9 ${\mathrm{A}}_{\mathrm{STDP}}=-0.54\text{pA}$	−0.525% of ${\mathrm{G}}_{\max }$	−0.5% of ${\mathrm{EPSC}}_{\max }=-0.425\mathrm{pA}$
Time Constant (ms)	10	20	20
Saturating synapses (Upper Bound)	No	Yes (not reported)	Yes (hard bound : 85 pA)
Weight Update	end of lap	instantaneous	instantaneous