About the Authors

Christian Pozzorini

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Pozzorini, Skander Mensi

christian.pozzorini@epfl.ch

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience (LCN), Brain Mind Institute, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Skander Mensi

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Pozzorini, Skander Mensi

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience (LCN), Brain Mind Institute, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Olivier Hagens

Affiliation Laboratory of Neural Microcircuitry (LNMC), Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Richard Naud

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Christof Koch

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA

Wulfram Gerstner

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience (LCN), Brain Mind Institute, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP SM CK WG. Performed the experiments: OH. Analyzed the data: SM CP. Wrote the paper: CP CK WG SM OH RN. Wrote the initial draft and the Python toolbox: CP.