Pin Kwang Tan is a research assistant in the N.1 Institute of Heath at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his BSc from the National University of Singapore.

Po-Jang Hsieh is an associate professor in the department of psychology at National Taiwan University. Po-Jang Hsieh obtained his PhD from Dartmouth College.

Praveen Chander is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Hannan Mansuri is currently completing her PhD in the laboratory of CAL.

Hassan Al-Ali is a research assistant professor in the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Helen Barbas is a professor at Boston University and Boston University School of Medicine.

Hong Long is a research associate in the molecular neurobiology laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Huda Y. Zoghbi is a professor of pediatrics, molecular and human genetics, neurology, and neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine.

Aditya Nair is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems program at Caltech. Nair attended undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, where he worked on the topic of this article and studied the role of neuromodulators in the claustrum.

Alexandra Moser is a PhD candidate in the neuroscience graduate program at the University of Southern California.