About the Authors

Natalia B. Mota

Affiliations Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Hospital Onofre Lopes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal, Brazil

Nivaldo A. P. Vasconcelos

Affiliations Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Faculdade Natalense para o Desenvolvimento do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Department of Systems and Computation, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

Nathalia Lemos

Affiliation Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Ana C. Pieretti

Affiliation Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Osame Kinouchi

Affiliation Department of Physics, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Guillermo A. Cecchi

Affiliation Biometaphorical Computing, Computational Biology Center, IBM Research Division, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Mauro Copelli

Affiliation Department of Physics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Sidarta Ribeiro

sidartaribeiro@neuro.ufrn.br

Affiliation Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Competing Interests

GAC is employed by IBM. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR NBM. Performed the experiments: NBM. Analyzed the data: NBM NAPV NL ACP OK GAC MC SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NAPV. Wrote the paper: SR NBM NAPV MC GAC OK.