About the Authors

Christoph Helmchen

christoph.helmchen@neuro.uni-luebeck.de

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Carina Palzer

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Thomas F. Münte

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Silke Anders

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Andreas Sprenger

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Helmchen has received speaker honoraria from Thieme Verlag, Pierre Fabre Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, and Henning Arzneimittel. Dr. Helmchen serves as an editorial board member of Neuro-ophthalmology and Frontiers in Neuro-otology. Dr. Münte is section editor of BMC Neuroscience, co-editor of Frontiers in Language Sciences and Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie and serves as an editorial board member of Clinical Neurophysiology. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the Cover Letter PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH SA TM AS. Performed the experiments: CP CH AS. Analyzed the data: CP CH AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the manuscript: CH TM SA.