About the Authors

Ingmar Kanitscheider

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingmar Kanitscheider, Ruben Coen-Cagli

Affiliations Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Center of Learning and Memory and Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Ruben Coen-Cagli

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingmar Kanitscheider, Ruben Coen-Cagli

ruben.coencagli@unige.ch

Affiliation Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Adam Kohn

Affiliations Dominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Alexandre Pouget

Affiliations Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IK RCC AK AP. Performed the experiments: IK RCC. Analyzed the data: IK RCC. Wrote the paper: IK RCC AK AP. Designed the software used in analysis: IK RCC.