About the Authors

Klaus M. Stiefel

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus M. Stiefel, Boris S. Gutkin

Current address: Theoretical and Experimental Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Boris S. Gutkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus M. Stiefel, Boris S. Gutkin

Boris.Gutkin@ens.fr

Affiliation Group for Neural Theory, DEC, ENS, College-de-France, CNRS, Paris, France

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMS BG. Performed the experiments: KMS. Wrote the paper: KMS BG TJS.