About the Authors

Sarah Feldt Muldoon

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Fabio Pasqualetti

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Shi Gu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew Cieslak

Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Scott T. Grafton

Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jean M. Vettel

Affiliations US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Danielle S. Bassett

dsb@seas.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SFM FP JMV DSB. Performed the experiments: STG MC. Analyzed the data: SFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SFM SG MC STG. Wrote the paper: SFM FP JMV DSB.