About the Authors

Rüdiger Land

land.ruediger@mh-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Experimental Otology, Institute of Audioneurotechnology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gerhard Engler

Affiliation Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andrej Kral

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrej Kral, Andreas K. Engel

Affiliations Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Experimental Otology, Institute of Audioneurotechnology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas K. Engel

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrej Kral, Andreas K. Engel

Affiliation Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL. Performed the experiments: RL. Analyzed the data: RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GE. Wrote the paper: RL GE AK AKE.