About the Authors

Manuel Schottdorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Schottdorf, Wolfgang Keil

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Focus for Neurotechnology, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Wolfgang Keil

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Schottdorf, Wolfgang Keil

wkeil@rockefeller.edu

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Focus for Neurotechnology, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

David Coppola

Affiliation Department of Biology, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, United States of America

Leonard E. White

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Fred Wolf

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany, Bernstein Focus for Neurotechnology, Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: LEW DC. Analyzed the data: MS WK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK. Wrote the paper: MS WK LEW DC FW. Performed analytical study: MS. Performed and analyzed simulations: MS. Conceived and designed the study: FW WK.