About the Authors

Joel Zylberberg

joelz@berkeley.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jason Timothy Murphy

Affiliation Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael Robert DeWeese

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ. Performed the experiments: JZ. Analyzed the data: JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTM. Wrote the paper: JZ MRD.