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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Silvano Petrarca for his continued assistance in devising the model. This study was funded by the NSERC Discovery Grant (05578–2014RGPIN), CERC (215063), CIHR Foundation Fund (167264). AMO is a Fellow of the CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness Program.

Author contributions

N.J.M.P., C.M. and G.L. performed the analysis. A.S., B.S. and N.J.M.P. developed the model. A.S. and B.S. supervised the analysis. N.J.M.P., A.S., G.L. and B.S. wrote the manuscript. A.M.O. revised the manuscript.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

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These authors contributed equally: Bobby Stojanoski and Andrea Soddu.

Supplementary Information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1038/s41598-021-97960-7.

Article information

Sci Rep. 2021; 11: 19771.

Published online 2021 Oct 5. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-97960-7

PMCID: PMC8492705

PMID: 34611185

Nicholas J. M. Popiel,1,2 Colin Metrow,1 Geoffrey Laforge,3 Adrian M. Owen,3,4,5 Bobby Stojanoski,#4,6 and Andrea Soddu#1,3

1The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada

2Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK

3The Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada

4The Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada

5The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada

6Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4 Canada

Andrea Soddu, Email: asoddu@uwo.ca

Corresponding author.

  1. Contributed equally.

Received 2021 Apr 28; Accepted 2021 Aug 30.

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