About the Authors

Baktash Babadi

bbabadi@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Swartz Program in Theoretical Neuroscience, Center for Brain Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

L. F. Abbott

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB LFA. Performed the experiments: BB LFA. Analyzed the data: BB LFA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB LFA. Wrote the paper: BB LFA.