Article Information
- Received September 26, 2011
- Revision received April 30, 2012
- Accepted May 4, 2012
- First published June 20, 2012.
- Version of record published June 20, 2012.
Author Information
- 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163,
- 2Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, and
- 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Neuroscience Institute, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Author contributions
Author contributions: Y.C., S.K.M., D.J., and D.H.H. designed research; Y.C. and S.K.M. performed research; Y.C., S.K.M., M.D., and D.H.H. analyzed data; Y.C., S.K.M., M.D., D.J., and D.H.H. wrote the paper.
↵*Y.C. and S.K.M. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received September 26, 2011.
- Revision received April 30, 2012.
- Accepted May 4, 2012.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants R01NS067201 (D.J.) and R01NS060887 (D.H.H.) and National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant BCS 0955037 (M.D.). We thank Michael Nguyen for excellent custom mechanical designs and Shuhua Qi for outstanding technical assistance. We also thank Dr. Shigeru Shinomoto for providing his MATLAB code for rate and regularity estimation. The content of this publication is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH and the NSF.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Detlef H. Heck, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 855 Monroe Avenue, Room 409, Memphis, TN 38163. dheck{at}uthsc.edu
