About the Authors

Shan Li

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Electronics Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Ruokuang Lin

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Electronics Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

Chunhua Bian

bch@nju.edu.cn (CB); plamen@buphy.bu.edu (PChI)

Affiliations Institute for Biomedical Electronics Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Modern Acoustics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China, Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States of America, Department of Neurology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, United States of America

Qianli D. Y. Ma

Affiliations Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States of America, College of Geographic and Biologic Information, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China, Harvard Medical School and Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America

Plamen Ch. Ivanov

bch@nju.edu.cn (CB); plamen@buphy.bu.edu (PChI)

Affiliations Keck Laboratory for Network Physiology, Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, United States of America, Harvard Medical School and Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America, Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CB QDYM PChI. Data curation: SL RL. Formal analysis: SL RL. Funding acquisition: CB QDYM PChI. Investigation: SL RL CB QDYM. Methodology: CB QDYM PChI. Project administration: CB. Resources: QDYM CB. Software: SL RL. Supervision: PChI. Validation: CB QDYM. Visualization: SL CB QDYM PChI. Writing – original draft: SL CB QDYM PChI. Writing – review & editing: CB QDYM PChI.