About the Authors

Zhiping Chen

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Evgeny Resnik

Affiliation Department of Cell Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

James M. McFarland

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Bert Sakmann

Affiliations Department of Cell Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany, Max-Plank-Florida Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Mayank R. Mehta

MayankMehta@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Integrative Center for Learning and Memory, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Departments of Neurology and of Neurobiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRM. Performed the experiments: ER. Analyzed the data: ZC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMM. Wrote the paper: MRM. Built and debugged the experimental rig: BS MRM.