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+These are Brian scripts corresponding to the following paper:
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+Brette R (2012). Computing with neural synchrony. *PLoS Comp Biol*. 8(6): e1002561. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002561
+
+Files are organized by topic. There can be dependencies within folders, but not across folders.  
+A few scripts need to be run in a specific order, but this is specified in the header of the files.  
+Note that a few simulations are very long (mostly the STDP ones).
+
+More usage information:
+
+Installing Brian is easy on an ubuntu 12.04 LTS system if you have easy_install installed: just type
+
+```
+sudo easy_install brian
+```
+
+To run a sample script that just takes minutes try for example:
+
+```
+cd computing_with_neural_synchrony/olfaction/
+python Fig9B_olfaction.py
+```
+
+After a few minutes you should see Fig9B from the paper:
+
+![screenshot](./screenshot.png)
+
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+2025-07-09: Converted README to Markdown.