About the Authors

Fred H Hamker

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fhamker@uni-muenster.de

Affiliations Institute of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany , Otto-Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Marc Zirnsak

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Dirk Calow

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Markus Lappe

Affiliations Institute of Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany , Otto-Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The primary contributions to the study were made by FH and MZ. FH developed the theoretical and computational framework and wrote the manuscript. He was supported by MZ, who also performed the implementation, simulation, and analysis. DC contributed to the calculation of the distances in cortical space. ML participated in the conceptualization of the study, interpretation of the results, and writing of the manuscript.