About the Authors

Cecilia Ramaioli

Cecilia.Ramaioli@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany, Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Paolo Colagiorgio

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Murat Sağlam

Affiliation German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Fabian Heuser

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich, Munich, Germany

Erich Schneider

Affiliations German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany, Clinical Neurosciences, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

Stefano Ramat

Affiliation Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Nadine Lehnen

Affiliations German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany, Department of Neurology, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

ES is the managing director and a shareholder of EyeSeeTec GmbH. NL received speaker honoraria and compensation for travel expenses from Interacoustics, Autronic Reglersysteme GmbH, and Meytec GmbH Medizinsysteme, and research support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich, and the Friedrich-Baur Foundation. She is a shareholder and paid consultant of EyeSeeTec GmbH. SR has the European patent on head impulse testing device for assessing the functionality of the semicircular canals and for the rehabilitation of vestibular loss (ep 2398377, Stefano Ramat, Marco Mandalà, 2011/12/28). CR, PC, MS, FH have no competing interests to report. 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: CR FH NL. Performed the experiments: CR FH. Analyzed the data: CR MS SR NL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR PC MS SR ES. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CR MS NL SR ES.