About the Authors

Itamar Sela

isela01@campus.haifa.ac.il

Affiliations School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Meltem Izzetoglu

Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kurtulus Izzetoglu

Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Banu Onaral

Affiliation School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

fNIR Devices, LLC manufactures the optical brain imaging instrument and licensed to know-how from Drexel University. Drs. M. Izzetoglu, K. Izzetoglu and B. Onaral were involved in the technology development and thus offered a minor share in the new startup firm fNIR Devices, LLC. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

This does not alter our adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS KI BO. Performed the experiments: IS. Analyzed the data: IS MI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS MI. Wrote the paper: IS MI BO.