Lucy Spence is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Ayan Mitra is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Hoeft Laboratory for Learning Engineering and Neural Systems (BrainLENS Laboratory, University of Connecticut and University of California, San Francisco) with joint appointment at the Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC) at the University of Connecticut, USA, Department of Psychological Sciences.