About the Authors

Jason D. Wittenbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason D. Wittenbach, Kristofer E. Bouchard

Affiliation Department of Physics and Center for Neural Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kristofer E. Bouchard

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason D. Wittenbach, Kristofer E. Bouchard

Current address: Biological and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery and Center for Neural Engineering and Prosthesis, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael S. Brainard

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dezhe Z. Jin

dzj2@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics and Center for Neural Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZJ MSB JDW KEB. Performed the experiments: JDW KEB. Analyzed the data: KEB. Wrote the paper: DZJ KEB JDW MSB. Computational model: JDW DZJ. Experiments: KEB MSB.