About the Authors

Marcus Kaiser

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: M.Kaiser@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom , Institute of Neuroscience, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom , International University Bremen, School of Engineering and Science, Bremen, Germany

Claus C Hilgetag

Affiliations International University Bremen, School of Engineering and Science, Bremen, Germany , Boston University, Sargent College, Department of Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MK and CCH conceived and designed the experiments. MK performed the experiments. MK analyzed the data. MK and CCH wrote the paper.