About the Authors

Johanni Brea

johanni.brea@epfl.ch

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Alexisz Tamás Gaál

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert Urbanczik

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Walter Senn

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RU WS JB. Performed the experiments: JB. Analyzed the data: JB WS. Wrote the paper: JB WS ATG. Methods: JB ATG RU WS.