The gabaergic GABA-A receptor-mediated synaptic mechanism was derived from granule cells and modified by maintaining the alpha1 subunit but deleting the alpha6 subunit (absent in PCs). The value for the fitting were taken from Zhang et al. (2015) to account for in vivo recording from stellate cell (SC) in the range P35–P42 to better match the mature PC. The GABA-A synapse parameters were: release probability = 0.35, τREC = 15 ms, τfacil = 4 ms, τI = 1 ms and a Gmax = 1200 pS, reversal potential = −60 mV. The number of synapses was adjusted to imitate experimental observations of multiple SC that elicited background inhibitory activity at 1.5 Hz and single SC bursts up to 150 Hz (Zhang et al., 2015).