1997; Zamora-López et al., 2016), which highlights the neuroscientific relevance of the phase reduction approach (Breakspear et al., 2010; Rodrigues et al., 2016). The directionality of the connections and interaction delays are the factors that we also simplified or neglected in this study. The former is critical for analyzing the propagating signals in networks, and the latter has been shown to be able to settle interconnected networks at an atypical global oscillatory state (Louzada et al., 2013).