About the Authors

Stephanie C. P. M. Theunissen

s.c.p.m.theunissen@lumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Carolien Rieffe

Affiliations Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anouk P. Netten

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jeroen J. Briaire

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Wim Soede

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Maartje Kouwenberg

Affiliation Department of Developmental Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Johan H. M. Frijns

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST, AN, CR, MK, WS, JB, JF. Performed the experiments: ST, MK. Analyzed the data: ST, AN, CR. Wrote the paper: ST, AN, CR, MK, WS, JB, JF.