About the Authors

Jeffrey D. Fitzgerald

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ryan J. Rowekamp

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Lawrence C. Sincich

Affiliation Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Tatyana O. Sharpee

sharpee@salk.edu

Affiliations Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDF RJR LCS TOS. Performed the experiments: LCS. Analyzed the data: JDF RJR LCS TOS. Wrote the paper: JDF RJR LCS TOS.