Article Information
- Received August 28, 2015
- Revision received January 8, 2016
- Accepted January 13, 2016
- First published February 24, 2016.
- Version of record published February 24, 2016.
Author Information
- Konstantin Hartmann1,6,*,
- Eric E. Thomson1,*,
- Ivan Zea1,
- Richy Yun1,
- Peter Mullen1,
- Jay Canarick1,
- Albert Huh7, and
- Miguel A. L. Nicolelis1,2,3,4,5
- 1Departments of Neurobiology,
- 2Biomedical Engineering, and
- 3Psychology and Neuroscience, and
- 4Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710,
- 5Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal (ELS-IINN), 59066-060, Natal, Brazil,
- 6Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany, and
- 7Georgia Regents University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912
Author contributions
Author contributions: K.H., E.E.T., R.Y., A.H., and M.A.L.N. designed research; K.H., E.E.T., I.Z., R.Y., P.M., J.C., and A.H. performed research; K.H. and E.E.T. analyzed data; K.H., E.E.T., and M.A.L.N. wrote the paper.
↵*K.H. and E.E.T. contributed equally to this work.
Disclosures
- Received August 28, 2015.
- Revision received January 8, 2016.
- Accepted January 13, 2016.
This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award DP1-MH-099903, and NIH Grant R01-DE-011451 to M.A.L.N. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Office of the NIH Director or the NIH. We thank G. Lehew and J. Meloy for help building the experimental setup and electrodes; T. Hanson, A. Fuller, and J. O'Doherty for help setting up and troubleshooting stimulators; S. Halkiotis for editing and preparing the manuscript; M. Viera for advice at multiple stages of the experiments; Manu Raghavan for statistics advice; Derek Silva Moreira for experimental help; A. Graneiro for help troubleshooting the setup and running experiments; D. Guggenmos for advice with the histology; anad J. Pedowitz for help in training animals.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Miguel A. Nicolelis, Box 3209, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710. nicoleli{at}neuro.duke.edu
