About the Authors

Felipe Gerhard

felipe.gerhard@epfl.ch

Affiliation Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Tilman Kispersky

Affiliation Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabrielle J. Gutierrez

Affiliations Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Group for Neural Theory, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Eve Marder

Affiliation Biology Department and Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark Kramer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Uri Eden

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM. Performed the experiments: TK GJG. Analyzed the data: FG TK. Wrote the paper: FG TK. Conceived and designed the models and analysis: FG MK UE. Performed the simulations: FG.