About the Authors

Wynn Legon

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Abby Rowlands

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Alexander Opitz

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Tomokazu F. Sato

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

William J. Tyler

wtyler@vt.edu

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors on the manuscript are inventors on a patent application entitled “Improvement of Sensory Stimulation”, which was filed as Intellectual Property through the Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (VTIP) office. Filing of this patent through VTIP did not affect the authors' objectivity or resolve in conducting the submitted research. In addition, William J. Tyler and Tomokazu F. Sato have other patents pending on brain stimulation methods and devices and hold equity in a neuromodulation device company, which is in no way related to the authors' study. 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: WL WJT. Performed the experiments: WL AR AO TFS WJT. Analyzed the data: WL AR AO TFS WJT. Wrote the paper: WL AR AO TFS WJT.