About the Authors

Valentina Cianca

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Tiziana Bartolini

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Maurizio Porfiri

mporfiri@poly.edu (MP); simone.macri@iss.it (SM)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Simone Macrì

mporfiri@poly.edu (MP); simone.macri@iss.it (SM)

Affiliation Section of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC SM MP. Performed the experiments: VC TB. Analyzed the data: VC TB SM MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP. Wrote the paper: VC SM MP.