Seveso, Martina A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6566-4578
Hirst, Rebecca J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1873-665X
O’Dowd, Alan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-9587
Camponogara, Ivan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-3449
Newell, Fiona N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7363-2346
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Article History
Received: 13 October 2025
Accepted: 15 January 2026
First Online: 21 February 2026
Declarations
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: One of the authors (Rebecca Hirst) is also the author of the package used to demonstrate vibration in this manuscript (PsychoPy/PsychoJS), and this softwareis provided free and open source to all users. This author is also part of Open Science Tools Ltd. This is a Social Enterprise that receives income from studiesbeing conducted on Pavlovia.org. Pavlovia.org is agnostic to the software package creating the studies - it supports studies from PsychoPy, jsPsych and Lab.js -and the resulting revenue stream funds further tool development
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the Trinity College Dublin, School of Psychology Research Ethics Committee (approval number SPREC102020-50).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Participants provided consent for anonymized data to be published as part of this work.