About the Authors

Robert Gütig

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Gütig, Tim Gollisch

guetig@em.mpg.de (RG); meister@caltech.edu (MM)

Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany, Racah Institute of Physics and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Tim Gollisch

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert Gütig, Tim Gollisch

Affiliation University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Ophthalmology, Göttingen, Germany

Haim Sompolinsky

Affiliations Racah Institute of Physics and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Markus Meister

guetig@em.mpg.de (RG); meister@caltech.edu (MM)

Current address: Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG TG HS MM. Performed the experiments: RG TG. Analyzed the data: RG TG. Wrote the paper: RG TG HS MM.