About the Authors

Pablo E. Jercog

Affiliations Physics Department, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Gytis Svirskis

Affiliation Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Vibhakar C. Kotak

Affiliation Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Dan H. Sanes

Affiliations Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

John Rinzel

rinzel@cns.nyu.edu

Affiliations Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: PEJ. Performed the experiments: PEJ. Analyzed the data: PEJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools and trained PEJ in doing the experiments: GS VCK. Wrote the paper: PEJ. Direct the research and manuscript preparation: DHS JR.