About the Authors

Stefano Luccioli

stefano.luccioli@fi.isc.cnr.it (SL); paol.bonifazi@gmail.com (PB)

Affiliations Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory on Integrative Network Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Eshel Ben-Jacob

Affiliations Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory on Integrative Network Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Beverly and Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Ari Barzilai

Affiliations Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory on Integrative Network Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Paolo Bonifazi

stefano.luccioli@fi.isc.cnr.it (SL); paol.bonifazi@gmail.com (PB)

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory on Integrative Network Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Beverly and Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Alessandro Torcini

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, Joint Italian-Israeli Laboratory on Integrative Network Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, INFN - Sezione di Firenze and CSDC, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL PB AT. Performed the experiments: SL. Analyzed the data: SL PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL AB PB. Wrote the paper: SL EBJ PB AT.