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"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper."

"This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31920103009 and 32371104), the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation (20&ZD153), the National Social Science Foundation (23ASH014), and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science-Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions (2023SHIBS0003). Yiman Li: Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft. Zheyi Zhou: Methodology, Software. Yuqi Zhang: Methodology, Investigation. Hui Ai: Writing – review & editing. Mingfang Liu: Writing – review & editing. Jing Liu: Writing – review & editing. Li Wang: Writing – review & editing. Jiang Qiu: Writing – review & editing, Resources. Zhuo Rachel Han: Writing – review & editing. Zhanjun Zhang: Writing – review & editing. Yuejia Luo: Supervision, Funding acquisition. Pengfei Xu: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing."