About the Authors

Bamini Gopinath

Affiliation Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Julie Schneider

Affiliation Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Catherine M. McMahon

Affiliations HEARing Co-operative Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Language Sciences, Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

George Burlutsky

Affiliation Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stephen R. Leeder

Affiliation Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Paul Mitchell

paul_mitchell@wmi.usyd.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BG PM. Performed the experiments: BG PM JS SRL GB CMM. Analyzed the data: GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM BG GB. Wrote the paper: BG PM SRL.