About the Authors

Christian Donner

Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany, Neural Information Processing Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Group for Methods of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Klaus Obermayer

Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany, Neural Information Processing Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hideaki Shimazaki

shimazaki@brain.riken.jp

Affiliation RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CD KO HS. Formal analysis: CD HS. Investigation: CD HS. Methodology: CD HS. Project administration: CD KO HS. Resources: CD HS. Software: CD HS. Supervision: KO HS. Validation: CD HS. Visualization: CD HS. Writing – original draft: CD HS. Writing – review & editing: CD KO HS.