About the Authors

Francisco Cervantes Constantino

Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Cervantes Constantino, Leyla Pinggera

Current address: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Leyla Pinggera

Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Cervantes Constantino, Leyla Pinggera

Current address: University Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Innsbruck, Austria

Affiliation Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Supathum Paranamana

Affiliation Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Makio Kashino

Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Atsugi, Japan

Maria Chait

m.chait@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Ear Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Makio Kashino is employed by NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan. No other authors have any competing interests to declare. 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: FC LP MK MC. Performed the experiments: FC LP SP. Analyzed the data: FC LP SP MC. Wrote the paper: FC LP MK MC.