About the Authors

Trygve Solstad

trygve.solstad@ntnu.no

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, MTFS, Trondheim, Norway

Hosam N. Yousif

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, 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

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS HNY TJS. Performed the experiments: TS HNY. Analyzed the data: TS HNY. Wrote the paper: TS HNY TJS.