About the Authors

Patrick G. T. Healey

p.healey@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliation Cognitive Science Research Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Matthew Purver

Affiliation Cognitive Science Research Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Christine Howes

Affiliation Cognitive Science Research Group, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

During the conduct of this study, Healey and Purver were funded at various times by grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, and Howes completed a PhD, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Purver has also received funding from the Technology Strategy Board, CreativeWorks London and the European Union Framework Programme 7. He is a Director of Chatterbox Labs Limited, a commercial company which supplies a software service for social media analysis. Healey has also received funding from AHRC, DSTL, Leverhulme and The Wellcome Trust. 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: PH MP CH. Performed the experiments: PH MP CH. Analyzed the data: PH MP CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PH MP CH. Wrote the paper: PH MP CH. Programmed analysis software: MP.