About the Authors

Miriam Zacksenhouse

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mermz@tx.technion.ac.il

Affiliation Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Mikhail A. Lebedev

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Neuro-engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jose M. Carmena

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Neuro-engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph E. O'Doherty

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Craig Henriquez

Affiliations Center for Neuro-engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Miguel A.L. Nicolelis

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Neuro-engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Miguel Nicolelis, is on the Editorial Board of PLoS One.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN. Performed the experiments: JC ML. Analyzed the data: MN JC ML JO CH MZ JO. Wrote the paper: MN ML MZ.