About the Authors

Morven Cameron

Contributed equally to this work with: Morven Cameron, Orsolya Kékesi

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience group, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Orsolya Kékesi

Contributed equally to this work with: Morven Cameron, Orsolya Kékesi

Affiliations School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience group, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

John W. Morley

Affiliations School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience group, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Jonathan Tapson

Affiliation School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Paul P. Breen

Affiliation School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

André van Schaik

Affiliation School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Yossi Buskila

y.buskila@uws.edu.au

Affiliations School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience group, The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

Dr. Buskila and Dr. Breen have applied for a patent on the Braincubator. Dr. Cameron, Mrs. Kékesi, Prof. van Schaik, Prof. Tapson and Prof. Morley declare no potential conflict of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB MC PPB JWM JT AvS. Performed the experiments: MC OK. Analyzed the data: MC OK YB. Wrote the paper: YB MC JWM.