About the Authors

Susana Martinez-Conde

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

smart@neuralcorrelate.com

Affiliations Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Michael B. McCamy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Xoana G. Troncoso

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America, UNIC-CNRS (Unité de Neuroscience Information et Complexité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Jorge Otero-Millan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Stephen L. Macknik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

This study was supported the Empire Innovation Program (Awards to S.L.M. and S.M.-C.), the Barrow Neurological Foundation (Awards to S.L.M. and S.M.-C.), the National Eye Institute (Award to David H. Hubel) and the National Science Foundation (Awards 0643306, 0852636 and 113786 to S.M.-C. and Awards 0726113 and 1523614 to S.L.M.). X.G.T. and J.O.-M. were Fellows of the Barrié Foundation (Spain). In addition, an award from Prevent Blindness Inc. supported the Department of Ophthalmology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center while we conducted some of the data analyses reported in this study and prepared the manuscript for publication. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funders, including Prevent Blindness Inc., had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We have no relevant declarations to disclose relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products.