About the Authors

Giovanni Hernandez

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yannick-André Breton

Affiliation Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Kent Conover

Affiliation Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Peter Shizgal

peter.shizgal@concordia.ca

Affiliation Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH PS Y-AB. Performed the experiments: GH. Analyzed the data: PS GH. Wrote the paper: PS GH. Designed the software tools used in analysis: KC. Designed software tools used in data collection: Y-AB. Developed the statistical approach: KC. Contributed to the statistical approach: Y-AB.