About the Authors

Dick J. Bierman

d.j.bierman@uva.nl

Affiliations Experimental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

James P. Spottiswoode

Affiliation LFR, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Aron Bijl

Affiliation Brain & Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DJB JS. Wrote the paper: DJB JS. Conceived the experiment (simulation): DJB. Discussed this extensively with DJB: AB. Wrote the RB software and ran the experiment: DJB. Wrote the R software and ran the experiment and was responsible for introducing the fitting by GA: JS. Analysis tools: DJB JS. Contributes the section on the TES experiments from which a publication probability function was derived: AB.