About the Authors

Pengcheng Zhou

Affiliations Program for Neural Computation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shawn D. Burton

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adam C. Snyder

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew A. Smith

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nathaniel N. Urban

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert E. Kass

kass@stat.cmu.edu

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ SDB ACS REK MAS NNU. Performed the experiments: PZ SDB ACS. Analyzed the data: PZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PZ REK. Wrote the paper: PZ REK SDB.