About the Authors

Erina Hara

hara@neuro.duke.edu (EH); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Miriam V. Rivas

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James M. Ward

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kazuo Okanoya

Affiliations Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN BSI, Saitama, Japan

Erich D. Jarvis

hara@neuro.duke.edu (EH); jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, 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: EH EDJ. Performed the experiments: EH MVR EDJ. Analyzed the data: EH JMW. Wrote the paper: EH KO EDJ.