About the Authors

David Higgins

Affiliations IBENS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Departments of Statistics and Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Graupner

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

Nicolas Brunel

nbrunel@galton.uchicago.edu

Affiliation Departments of Statistics and Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH MG NB. Performed the experiments: DH MG. Wrote the paper: DH MG NB.