About the Authors

Michael Gelfand

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Oreste Piro

Affiliation Departament de Física and Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) - University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Marcelo O. Magnasco

Affiliation Laboratory of Mathematical Physics, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

A. J. Hudspeth

hudspaj@rockefeller.edu

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAG AJH. Performed the experiments: MAG. Analyzed the data: MAG OP MOM. Wrote the paper: MAG OP MOM AJH.