About the Authors

Brian N. Pasley

bpasley@berkeley.edu

Affiliation Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Stephen V. David

Affiliation Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Nima Mesgarani

Affiliations Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Adeen Flinker

Affiliation Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Shihab A. Shamma

Affiliation Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Nathan E. Crone

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert T. Knight

Affiliations Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Edward F. Chang

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: BNP SVD. Performed the experiments: NEC EFC BNP AF. Analyzed the data: BNP SVD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NM SVD SAS BNP. Wrote the paper: BNP SVD NM AF SAS NEC RTK EFC. Coordinated project: RTK NEC EFC.