About the Authors

Heather K. J. van der Lely

h.vanderlely@dldcn.org

Affiliations Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle, Department Études Cognitive, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elisabeth Payne

Affiliation Department of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Alastair McClelland

Affiliation Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following potential conflicts: HvdL wishes to declare that the GAPS test is her personal contribution to the field and to children with SLI, and therefore there is potentially a personal and financial conflict of interest. The second and third authors have no personal or otherwise conflict of interest in the study or test. 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: HKJvdL EP. Performed the experiments: EP. Analyzed the data: EP AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HKJvdL. Wrote the paper: HKJvdL. Commented and discussed the manuscript contents throughout: HKJvdL EP AM.