About the Authors

Marco Aurelio M. Freire

Current address: John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil

Edgard Morya

Affiliation Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Associação Alberto Santos Dumont para Apoio a Pesquisa, Sírio Libanês Hospital, São Paulo/SP, Brazil

Jean Faber

Affiliations Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil, Foundation Nanosciences and Clinatec/LETI/CEA, Grenoble, France

Jose Ronaldo Santos

Affiliation Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil

Joanilson S. Guimaraes

Affiliation Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil

Nelson A. M. Lemos

Affiliation Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil

Koichi Sameshima

Affiliations Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Associação Alberto Santos Dumont para Apoio a Pesquisa, Sírio Libanês Hospital, São Paulo/SP, Brazil, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo/SP, Brazil

Antonio Pereira

Affiliation Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil

Sidarta Ribeiro

Affiliation Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil

Miguel A. L. Nicolelis

nicoleli@neuro.duke.edu

Affiliations Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal, Natal/RN, Brazil, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Associação Alberto Santos Dumont para Apoio a Pesquisa, Sírio Libanês Hospital, São Paulo/SP, Brazil, Center for Neuroengineering, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAMF EM SR MALN. Performed the experiments: MAMF JRS JSG EM. Analyzed the data: MAMF JF EM JRS JSG NAML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MALN SR AP JF KS. Wrote the paper: MAMF SR MALN. Designed and organized the illustrations: MAMF JF NAML SR.