Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09760-7, published online 29 August 2017 This Article contains an error in the Experimental Procedures section under subheading ‘Cell culture and generation of ChR2-expressing cardiomyocytes’, where data is omitted in the first paragraph, “1 × 106 Cor4U cardiomyocytes derived from hiPSC were purchased from Axiogenesis (Cologne, Germany) and cultivated in Cor4U Complete Culture Medium (Axiogenesis) in T25 flasks.