About the Authors

Laura Astolfi

laura.astolfi@unipd.it

Affiliations Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Foundation Onlus ‘Staminali e Vita’, Padua, Italy

Edi Simoni

Affiliation Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Filippo Valente

Affiliation Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Sara Ghiselli

Affiliation ENT surgery - Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Stavros Hatzopoulos

Affiliation Clinic of ENT, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Milvia Chicca

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Alessandro Martini

Affiliations Bioacoustics Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Foundation Onlus ‘Staminali e Vita’, Padua, Italy, ENT surgery - Department of Neurosciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

The work was supported by the Scharper Healthcare Srl. (Milan, Italy). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LA. Data curation: LA ES MC. Formal analysis: LA ES. Funding acquisition: AM. Investigation: ES FV SG. Methodology: LA SH. Project administration: LA AM. Resources: LA SH MC. Supervision: LA SH AM. Validation: LA. Visualization: LA ES. Writing – original draft: LA ES. Writing – review & editing: LA MC.