About the Authors

Sidarta Ribeiro

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ribeiro@neuro.duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Damien Gervasoni

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ernesto S Soares

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Yi Zhou

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Shih-Chieh Lin

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Janaina Pantoja

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Michael Lavine

Affiliation Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Miguel A. L Nicolelis

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychological Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke University Center for Neuro-Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

SR, DG, and MALN conceived and designed the experiments. SR, DG, ESS, YZ, S-CL, and JP performed the experiments. SR, ESS, YZ, and S-CL analyzed the data. ESS, YZ, S-CL, MLL, and MALN contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SR wrote the paper.