About the Authors

Daniel Oberfeld

oberfeld@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Section Experimental Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Wiebke Heeren

Affiliation Department of Experimental Audiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Jan Rennies

Affiliation Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology, Fraunhofer-Institut für Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT, Oldenburg, Germany

Jesko Verhey

Affiliation Department of Experimental Audiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

One of the authors (Jan Rennies) is employed by Fraunhofer IDMT, which is partially funded by industrial cooperation partners. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DO WH JV JR. Performed the experiments: DO WH. Analyzed the data: DO WH JR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DO WH JR. Wrote the paper: DO WH JV JR.