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Kazazis 2024 discussion of the impact of systemic mis-identification of sound sources

in a 2024 paper looking at the impact spectral and temporal modification of trigger and neutrals sounds impacts aversiveness, the authors discuss an interesting explanation there observed large variance in ratings of unmodified stimuli. they attribute this variability to systemic misidentification of the stimuli by the subjects. the authors give the example of subjects possibly mislabeling one stimulus as “chewing” when the experimenters labeled it as “slurping”. (Kazazis et al., 2024)

• it would be wise to address concerns like this in future methods, such as how I am looking at trends in response IDs in the MisoCog2 project project