About the Authors

Ueli Rutishauser

urut@caltech.edu

Affiliations Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jean-Jacques Slotine

Affiliation Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rodney Douglas

Affiliation Institute of Neuroinformatics, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UR JJS RJD. Performed the experiments: UR. Analyzed the data: UR JJS RJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UR JJS RJD. Wrote the paper: UR JJS RJD.