“…To quantify the network synchronization we measured the phase synchronization (PS; Singer, 1999; Varela et al, 2001; Boccaletti et al, 2002; Newman, 2003; Arenas et al, 2008; Baruchi et al, 2008; Filatova et al, 2008; Li et al, 2008; Zanin et al, 2008; Fuchs et al, 2009) between every pair of neurons in the networks. As detailed below, PS is a measure of the coordination (or coherence) between the firing of two neurons – in other words, the expectation that when one neuron fires the second one will fire within a constant phase shift (time delay).…”