About the Authors

Gašper Tkačik

gtkacik@ist.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Olivier Marre

Affiliations Institut de la Vision, INSERM U968, UPMC, CNRS U7210, CHNO Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Dario Amodei

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Elad Schneidman

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

William Bialek

Affiliations Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Michael J. Berry II

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT OM DA ES WB MJB. Performed the experiments: OM DA MJB. Analyzed the data: GT OM DA WB MJB. Wrote the paper: GT OM WB MJB.