About the Authors

Gonzalo E. Mena

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gem2131@columbia.edu

Affiliation Statistics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lauren E. Grosberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sasidhar Madugula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Paweł Hottowy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland

Alan Litke

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

John Cunningham

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

E. J. Chichilnisky

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.