About the Authors

Joel Zylberberg

joel.zylberberg@ucdenver.edu

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Neuroscience, and Computational Bioscience Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Learning in Machines and Brains Program, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alexandre Pouget

Affiliations Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter E. Latham

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter E. Latham, Eric Shea-Brown

Affiliation Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Eric Shea-Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter E. Latham, Eric Shea-Brown

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Program in Neuroscience, University of Washington Institute for Neuroengineering, and Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JZ AP PEL ESB. Formal analysis: JZ PEL ESB. Methodology: JZ AP PEL ESB. Validation: JZ PEL ESB. Writing – original draft: JZ AP PEL ESB. Writing – review & editing: JZ AP PEL ESB.