About the Authors

Gabriel D Puccini

Affiliation Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain

Maria V Sanchez-Vives

Affiliation Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain

Albert Compte

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: acompte@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Spain , Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AC and MVSV conceived and designed the simulations and experiments and contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. MVSV and GDP performed the experiments. GDP performed the simulations, analyzed the data and made the figures. AC led the manuscript writing, with significant contributions from all other authors.