About the Authors

Lingling Yang

linglyang2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Howard Leung

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

David A. Peterson

Affiliations Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, 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

Howard Poizner

Affiliations Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Graduate Program in Neurosciences, 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: DAP TJS HP. Performed the experiments: DAP HP. Analyzed the data: LY HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY HL. Wrote the paper: LY HL DAP TJS HP.