Figure 7.
Perturbations of means (left column) and standard deviations (right column) of first passage times for the SPB model. Panels A, B: effects of single pulse perturbations with varying onset times; vertical axes as in Figs. 2 and 3. -+ denotes effect of negative pulse at positive threshold, +- denotes effect of positive pulse at negative threshold, etc. Due to symmetry, -+ and +- have same effect (solid curves) as do ++ and -- (dashed curves). Panels C, D: responses to zero-effect perturbations; vertical axis in C as in Fig. 4; vertical axis in D shows normalized change in standard deviation as in Fig. 3.