About the Authors

Ying-Yee Kong

yykong@neu.edu

Affiliations Department of Speech Language Pathology & Audiology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bioengineering Program, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ala Mullangi

Affiliation Bioengineering Program, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kostas Kokkinakis

Affiliation Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-YK AM. Performed the experiments: Y-YK AM. Analyzed the data: Y-YK AM KK. Wrote the paper: Y-YK.