Effect of noise on planning performance and readout time in the network used in Fig 3.

<p>(a) Planning performance, shown for 3 different readout times of 60, 180 and 240 ms (corresponding to 1, 3 and 4 readout cycles, bottom to top), declines with increasing noise (average across 10 chosen paths, error bars represent standard deviations of mean). (b) Readout time used at each position such that a shortest 10-step path is found, evaluated for the different noise levels. Parameters, network- and task configuration as used in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0127269#pone.0127269.g003" target="_blank">Fig 3</a>.