About the Authors

Thaddeus R. Cybulski

cyb@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Edward S. Boyden

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George M. Church

Affiliations Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keith E. J. Tyo

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Konrad P. Kording

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRC ESB GMC KEJT KPK. Performed the experiments: TRC. Analyzed the data: TRC KPK. Wrote the paper: TRC ESB GMC KEJT KPK.