About the Authors

Cheryl A. Olman

Affiliations Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Noam Harel

Affiliations Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

David A. Feinberg

Affiliation Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California, United States of America

Sheng He

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Peng Zhang

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Kamil Ugurbil

Affiliation Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Essa Yacoub

yacoub@cmrr.umn.edu

Affiliation Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

David Feinberg is employed by Advanced MRI Technologies. 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: CAO EY NH. Performed the experiments: CAO EY PZ SH. Analyzed the data: CAO EY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF KU EY PZ SH. Wrote the paper: CAO NH DF KU EY.