About the Authors

Ross S. Williamson

ross_williamson@meei.harvard.edu (RSW); pillow@princeton.edu (JWP)

Current Affiliation: Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA & Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Affiliations Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, UK, Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology, University College London, London, UK

Maneesh Sahani

Affiliation Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, UK

Jonathan W. Pillow

ross_williamson@meei.harvard.edu (RSW); pillow@princeton.edu (JWP)

Affiliation Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RSW MS JWP. Performed the experiments: RSW MS JWP. Analyzed the data: RSW JWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSW JWP. Wrote the paper: RSW MS JWP.