A transfer function that is used to mimic the synchronization bug in the SCM simulator for the decision layer. The “unshunted” channel is ignored and lateral inhibition is implemented internally — with SCM's additional inhibition term multiplying by own state — based on the most recently updated state of the preceding node.

parameter		default_value
decay			0
rate			1	
max_act			1
min_act			0
extra_inhibition	0