Article Information
- Received May 21, 2011
- Revision received July 28, 2011
- Accepted August 9, 2011
- First published October 5, 2011.
- Version of record published October 5, 2011.
Author Information
- 1Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen,
- 2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and
- 3Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, 72076 Tübingen, Germany,
- 4Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, and
- 5Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, and
- 6Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
Author contributions
Author contributions: A.S.E., P.B., A.S.T., and M.B. designed research; A.S.E., P.B., A.S.T., and M.B. performed research; A.S.E., P.B., A.S.T., and M.B. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received May 21, 2011.
- Revision received July 28, 2011.
- Accepted August 9, 2011.
This work was supported by the Bernstein Award (M.B.) by the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Technology (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) Grant FKZ 01GQ0601, the German Excellency Initiative through the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience Tübingen (M.B., A.S.E.), the Max Planck Society (M.B., A.S.E., P.B.), the German National Academic Foundation (P.B.), National Eye Institute–National Institutes of Health Grant R01 EY018847 (A.S.T.), The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award (A.S.T.), the Veterans Affairs Merit Award (A.S.T.), and The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience Scholar Award (A.S.T.).
We thank R. Haefner and S. Gerwinn for discussions and comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Alexander S. Ecker, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 41, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. aecker{at}tuebingen.mpg.de
