Auditory Binding Experiment

Human Subject Information

As a participant in any research study you must be fully informed of the potential risks and benefits. In this experiment, no known or imaginable harm can conceivably occur to you (except perhaps frustration if you are unable to detect AB), but there may remain unknown and unimaginable hazards. You are venturing into unexplored territory in your own mind, and nobody can guarantee for you with absolute 100% certainty that no dangers lurk there. Unstable people, please filter yourselves out now.

Potential Risks

  • Drug interactions: do not attempt to perform this experiment while under the influence of alcohol or other psychoactive drugs, especially caffeine. (Caffeine will probably prevent you from experiencing AB, and there's no way to know what other drugs might do to you). A clear head is essential; the risk here is that you might not experience AB.
  • No guarantees. You may not experience AB, and you are one hundred percent and completely responsible for the safe conduct of the experiment. Especially if you alter it in any way (say for example you tried to do it while skydiving) you are still fully responsible for the consequences.
If, after reading the detailed instructions you'll receive by email after signing up to be a researcher, you have the slightest doubt that this experiment is safe for you, please do not do it.

Potential Benefits

  • A satisfied curiosity: is this for real?
  • Discovering a new feature of your own mind's landscape.
  • Being among the first to ever perceive their own AB.
  • Advancing human knowledge about mind-brain interaction.
This is participatory science, which you can do whether you're 8 or 80 (no age limits apply). If you are under 18 years of age however, you should let your parents know about it (just like anything else you do), and if they tell you not to, don't.

By being a first person researcher/test subject in this experiment you agree to assume full responsibility for anything that goes wrong, and hold the principal investigator, Dr. Karl Simanonok, harmless for any unexpected, unpleasant experiences you might have. [CODE = 2392] <- Enter this code number on the signup form to prove that you have reviewed the human subject information for this experiment.