About the Authors

Ritwik K. Niyogi

ritwik.niyogi@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter Shizgal

Affiliation Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Peter Dayan

Affiliation Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: RK NPD PS. Formulated overall project: RKN PD PS. Formalized and implemented the relationship between microscopic and macroscopic analyses: RKN PD.