About the Authors

Sygal Amitay

sygal@ihr.mrc.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council—Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

David R. Moore

Current address: Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Medical Research Council—Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Katharine Molloy

Current address: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Medical Research Council—Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Lorna F. Halliday

Affiliation Developmental Science, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

SA is an academic editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA LFH. Performed the experiments: KM. Analyzed the data: SA. Wrote the paper: SA DRM LFH. Critically reviewed article: KM. Set up the software used for testing: KM.