About the Authors

Wei-Chung Allen Lee

Affiliations The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hayden Huang

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guoping Feng

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

Joshua R Sanes

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emery N Brown

Affiliations Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory, Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America

Peter T So

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elly Nedivi

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nedivi@mit.edu

Affiliations The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WCAL, HH, PTS, and EN conceived and designed the experiments. WCAL and HH performed the experiments. WCAL, ENB, and EN analyzed the data. GF, JRS, and PTS contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. WCAL and EN wrote the paper.