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% Desc - Software for the experiment with timer attractor. The results
%        for this experiment are reported in figure 3 of paper(s)
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%    [1] W. Maass, P. Joshi, and E. D. Sontag. Computational aspects of
%    feedback in neural circuits. submitted for publication, 2005.
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%    [2] W. Maass, P. Joshi, and E. D. Sontag. Principles of real-time
%    computing with feedback applied to cortical microcircuit models.
%    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 18.
%    MIT Press, 2006. to appear.
%
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   1) The file load_params.m contains the global parameters for the 
   simulation, and the file launch_experiment.m starts the simulation.

   2) The value of the variable SET_STATIC_SYNAPSES in load_params.m
   determines whether the simulation is run with dynamic synapses (=0)
   or static synapses (=1).

   3) The file modify_circuit.m converts a circuit with dynamic
   synapses to an equivalent circuit with static synapses (each
   dynamic synapse replaced by a corresponding static synapse).

   4) The corrsponding inputs for the case with dynamic
   synapses are stored in the directory ./data_dynamic,
   and for the case with static synapses in ./data_static.
   
   5) The corrsponding results for the case with dynamic
   synapses are stored in the directory ./results_dynamic,
   and for the case with static synapses in ./results_static.

   6) Run the software at your own risk ;)
