About the Authors

Kristina D. Simmons

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina D. Simmons, Jason S. Prentice

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jason S. Prentice

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristina D. Simmons, Jason S. Prentice

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Gašper Tkačik

Affiliation Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Jan Homann

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Heather K. Yee

Affiliation Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stephanie E. Palmer

Affiliation Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Philip C. Nelson

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vijay Balasubramanian

vijay@physics.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, cole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 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: KDS JSP GT PCN VB. Performed the experiments: KDS JSP. Analyzed the data: KDS JSP GT JH. Wrote the paper: KDS JSP VB. Produced the natural movie stimuli: HKY SEP.