About the Authors

Simone Kurt

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Kurt, Anke Deutscher

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany, University of Ulm, Institute of Neurobiology, Ulm, Germany

Anke Deutscher

Contributed equally to this work with: Simone Kurt, Anke Deutscher

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

John M. Crook

Affiliation Division of Psychology, School of Biology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Frank W. Ohl

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Eike Budinger

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany, Clinic of Neurology II, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Christoph K. Moeller

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Henning Scheich

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

Holger Schulze

*E-mail: Holger.Schulze@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany, Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSchulze. Performed the experiments: EB SK AD JC CM. Analyzed the data: HSchulze FO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB HSchulze FO HScheich. Wrote the paper: EB SK HSchulze FO JC HScheich.