This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, by the BMI project of IIT, by the Compagnia di San Paolo, and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; FKZ: 01GQ1002).
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