About the Authors

Vadas Gintautas

vgintautas@chatham.edu (VG); gkenyon@lanl.gov (GTK)

Affiliations Center for Nonlinear Studies and T-5, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Physics Department, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael I. Ham

Affiliation P-21 Applied Modern Physics (Biological and Quantum Physics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Benjamin Kunsberg

Affiliation New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Shawn Barr

Affiliation New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Steven P. Brumby

Affiliation Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Craig Rasmussen

Affiliation New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

John S. George

Affiliation P-21 Applied Modern Physics (Biological and Quantum Physics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ilya Nemenman

Affiliation Departments of Physics and Biology and Computational and Life Sciences Initiative, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Affiliation Center for Nonlinear Studies and T-5, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Garret T. Kenyon

vgintautas@chatham.edu (VG); gkenyon@lanl.gov (GTK)

Affiliations P-21 Applied Modern Physics (Biological and Quantum Physics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VG JSG IN LMAB GTK. Performed the experiments: MIH SB. Analyzed the data: VG MIH BK SB GTK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPB CR GTK. Wrote the paper: VG IN LMAB GTK. Conceived the research program: JSG IN LMAB GTK. Designed and implemented model cortical association fields: VG GTK.