About the Authors

J. Vincent Toups

Affiliation Computational Neurophysics Laboratory, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jean-Marc Fellous

Affiliation Psychology Department and Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Peter J. Thomas

pjthomas@case.edu

Affiliations Departments of Mathematics, Biology, and Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Paul H. Tiesinga

Affiliations Computational Neurophysics Laboratory, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JVT JMF PJT TJS PHT. Performed the experiments: JVT JMF PHT. Analyzed the data: JVT JMF PJT TJS PHT. Wrote the paper: JVT JMF PJT TJS PHT.