About the Authors

Marie Forgeard

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ellen Winner

winner@bc.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrea Norton

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gottfried Schlaug

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF EW AN GS. Performed the experiments: MF EW AN GS. Analyzed the data: MF EW AN GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF EW AN GS. Wrote the paper: MF EW AN GS.