About the Authors

Guy Madison

Guy.Madison@psy.umu.se

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

This could be argued to be an “interest“ but it is no “conflict“. The author gauges that the following facts have not in any way affected the conduct, direction, or presentation of this research. The author is named as an inventor on a Swedish patent (SE 529 032 C2) and patent applications for the U.S. (US20080091414), the United Kingdom (GB2441259), and Australia (PCT/SE2006/050117) regarding the use of the type of stimulus patterns used in this study for therapeutic purposes. Note that these patent documents do not describe the particular pattern used in the experiment and do not mention the behavioural and psychological aspects that are the focus of the ms.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM. Performed the experiments: GM. Analyzed the data: GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM. Wrote the paper: GM.