Article Information
- Received February 16, 2013
- Revision received July 22, 2013
- Accepted July 25, 2013
- First published September 25, 2013.
- Version of record published September 25, 2013.
Author Information
- 1Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan,
- 2Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, 332-1102, Japan,
- 3Department of Applied Mathematics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, 814-0180, Japan,
- 4Laboratory for Dynamics of Emergent Intelligence, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, 351-0198, Japan,
- 5Research Institute for Electronic Science and
- 6Research Center for Integrative Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan, and
- 7Tohoku University Brain Science Center, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan
Author contributions
Author contributions: T.N., J.T., and H.M. designed research; T.N. and R.H. performed research; T.N. and I.T. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; T.N. analyzed data; T.N., J.T., and H.M. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received February 16, 2013.
- Revision received July 22, 2013.
- Accepted July 25, 2013.
This work was supported by grants from the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (T.N., H.M.), and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Neural Creativity for Communication (Number 4103)” (Grant 24120702) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (T.N., R.H., H.M., I.T.). We thank M. Kurama, Y. Takahashi, and M. Takahashi for technical assistance and animal care. We thank H. Watanabe for mathematical simulation.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to H. Mushiake, Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 2-1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan. hmushiak{at}med.tohoku.ac.jp
