About the Authors

Kazuhiro Sakamoto

sakamoto@riec.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Yuichi Katori

Affiliations Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative Research and Development on Science and Technology, Aihara Innovative Mathematical Modelling Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Naohiro Saito

Current address: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medical Science, 2–2–2 Iida-Nishi, Yamagata-shi, Yamagata, Japan

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Shun Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Kazuyuki Aihara

Affiliations Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative Research and Development on Science and Technology, Aihara Innovative Mathematical Modelling Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Hajime Mushiake

Affiliations Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, The Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS NS HM. Performed the experiments: KS NS HM. Analyzed the data: KS NS SY HM. Wrote the paper: KS YK NS SY KA HM. Model simulation: KS YK.