About the Authors

Samar B Mehta

Affiliation Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diane Whitmer

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rodolfo Figueroa

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ben A Williams

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

David Kleinfeld

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dk@physics.ucsd.edu

Affiliations Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Computational Neurobiology Graduate Program, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America , Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SBM, DW, and DK conceived and designed the experiments. SBM, DW, and RF performed the experiments. SBM analyzed the data. SBM, BAW, and DK contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SBM and DK wrote the paper.