About the Authors

Steven A. Prescott

prescott@neurobio.pitt.edu

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Yves De Koninck

Affiliation Division de Neurobiologie Cellulaire, Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Québec, Québec, Canada

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAP YDK TJS. Performed the experiments: SAP. Analyzed the data: SAP. Wrote the paper: SAP YDK TJS.