Fig. 2

Simulated time-series data for Network B following the generative model in Eq. (6). The plot on the left shows simulated data corresponding to network coupling strength g=0.3000 and variance of noise σ=1. The plot on the right refers to data from the same network with coupling g=0.3022 and the same noise amplitude. Each plot shows 8 time-series profiles, corresponding to the 8 nodes of the network (note that several of these profiles intersect or overlap with each other, hence in the above plots they appear to be clustered together). The time-series for each node is shown in a different color and the color scheme is the same for the plot on the left and the one on the right. Stability of the system is guaranteed until the critical coupling at g=0.3023. Closer to the critical point, the system takes longer to converge to the fixed-point attractor at x = 0