About the Authors

Christoph M. Zehendner

Zehendner@uni-mainz.de (CZ); YangJ@uni-mainz.de (JY)

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Simeon Tsohataridis

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Heiko J. Luhmann

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Jenq-Wei Yang

Zehendner@uni-mainz.de (CZ); YangJ@uni-mainz.de (JY)

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

HJL was supported by DFG grants (DFG FOR 1341 "Barrel Cortex Function"), CMZ is supported by a Stufe 1 grant of the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, ST is supported by the Deutsche Studienstiftung. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMZ JWY HJL. Performed the experiments: ST JWY CMZ. Analyzed the data: ST JWY CMZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMZ HJL. Wrote the manuscript: CMZ HJL JWY.