Table 1.

Notation for the neural population model.

Notation	Interpretation
αmn	Connectivity parameter, population m to n
vmn	Post-synaptic potential
zmn	Derivative of post-synaptic potential
vn	Net mean membrane potential for population n
hmn(t)	Post-synaptic response kernel
ϕm	Mean firing rate
g(·)	Sigmoidal activation function
u	Input from external unmodeled population
τmn	Synaptic time constant
ς	Standard deviation of firing thresholds
v0	Mean firing threshold
M	Total number of populations in the model
N	Total number of intra-region connections
J	Total number of regions in the model
K	Total number of inter-region connection
δ	Time step