Figure 1.

The firing rates of all i = 1, …, N neurons, as a function of the relative rank K_rank = i/N of the individual neurons (N = 100). The coupling matrix is uniform (see Equation 5) and the afferent coupling strength K_i uniformly distributed between K ± ΔK; with K = 2.0 and ΔK/K = 0.9/0.6/0.2 (A–C). The full red lines denote the results obtained by solving numerically Equations (2) and (3), and the dashed lines the stationary mean field solution (SMF, Equation 13).