About the Authors

Alberto Mazzoni

alb.mazzoni@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Statistical Physics, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy

Stefano Panzeri

Affiliations Division of Statistical Physics, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Nikos K. Logothetis

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Nicolas Brunel

Affiliations Division of Statistical Physics, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy, Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, CNRS UMR 8119, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NKL. Performed the experiments: NKL. Analyzed the data: AM SP. Wrote the paper: AM SP NB. Conceived and designed the simulations: AM SP NB. Performed the simulations: AM NB. Read and commented on the paper: AM SP NKL NB. Defined the general questions: SP NKL NB.