About the Authors

Ian M. Wiggins

ian.wiggins@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliations National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Douglas E. H. Hartley

Affiliations National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IW DH. Performed the experiments: IW. Analyzed the data: IW DH. Wrote the paper: IW DH.