Correction to: Nature Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55298-4, published online 02 January 2025 In this article the following sentence was omitted from the acknowledgements section, ‘This research was funded by the following projects: Project CANDO (Controlling Network Dynamics with Optogenetics), funded by UK EPSRC (grant ref: NS/A000026/1) and the Wellcome Trust (contract ref: 102037/Z/13/Z)’. The original article has been corrected.