George is the Irene Tan Liang Kheng Professor of neuroscience at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the Director of NTU-MIND, an institute of the Nanyang Technological University that is devoted to interdisciplinary studies of Brain & Learning.

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.

Anni Nora is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at Aalto University.

Elizabeth McCullagh is an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University, where she spearheads work on Fragile X Syndrome and auditory processing difficulties.

Patricia Jensen is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences where she leads the Developmental Neurobiology Group.

Barry Waterhouse is professor and chair of the department of cell biology and neuroscience at Rowan University where he investigates the neurobiology of the locus coruleus-norepinephrine system.