About the Authors

Johannes Friedrich

j.friedrich@columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Pengcheng Zhou

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JF LP. Formal analysis: JF LP PZ. Funding acquisition: JF LP. Investigation: JF PZ. Methodology: JF LP PZ. Software: JF PZ. Supervision: LP. Writing – original draft: JF LP PZ. Writing – review & editing: JF LP PZ.