About the Authors

Nikhil J. Joshi

nikhil.joshi@caltech.edu

Affiliations Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédé ral de Lausanne, Switzerland

Giulio Tononi

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Christof Koch

Affiliations Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJJ GT CK. Performed the experiments: NJJ. Analyzed the data: NJJ CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJJ. Wrote the paper: NJJ CK.