About the Authors

Sahar Akram

sakram@umd.edu

Affiliations The Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Bernhard Englitz

Affiliations The Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France, Department of Neurophysiology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Mounya Elhilali

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan Z. Simon

Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Maryland University, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Shihab A. Shamma

Affiliations The Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA ME JZS SAS. Performed the experiments: SA. Analyzed the data: SA BE ME JZS SAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA BE ME JZS SAS. Wrote the paper: SA BE ME JZS SAS.