About the Authors

Xing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Chen, Mehdi Sanayei

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Mehdi Sanayei

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Chen, Mehdi Sanayei

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Alexander Thiele

alex.thiele@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT XC MS. Performed the experiments: XC. Analyzed the data: XC MS AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT. Wrote the paper: XC AT MS.