About the Authors

Alberto Mazzoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Mazzoni, Henrik Lindén

a.mazzoni@sssup.it (AM); gaute.einevoll@nmbu.no (GTE)

Affiliations The Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Pisa, Italy, Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy

Henrik Lindén

Contributed equally to this work with: Alberto Mazzoni, Henrik Lindén

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology–KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Hermann Cuntz

Affiliations Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Anders Lansner

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology–KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Stefano Panzeri

Affiliation Neural Computation Laboratory, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems @UniTn, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy

Gaute T. Einevoll

a.mazzoni@sssup.it (AM); gaute.einevoll@nmbu.no (GTE)

Affiliations Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM HL HC AL SP GTE. Performed the experiments: AM HL HC. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM HL HC. Wrote the paper: AM HL HC AL SP GTE.