{"id":77,"date":"2026-09-19T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/paf-section\/11\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:31:28","slug":"11","status":"publish","type":"paf_section","link":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/paf-section\/11\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgments and Declarations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Acknowledgments<\/h2>\n<p>I want to acknowledge the researchers whose published work made it possible to ground this theoretical model in an existing, rigorous scientific literature rather than in intuition alone, in particular the ongoing research programs in predictive processing, music cognition, and auditory neuroscience cited throughout this paper. Any errors of interpretation in connecting their findings to the Perceptual Attenuation Field remain my own.<\/p>\n<p>No funding body, institution, or grant supported this work. It was conducted independently, alongside my ongoing practice as a musician and sound researcher based in The Hague, Netherlands.<\/p>\n<h2>Declarations<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>12.1 Conflict of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The author is the designer and developer of MRSE (<a class=\"crossref-return\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/mrse-section\/abstract\/\">Matrix-Routed Sonic Ecosystem<\/a>), the instrumental system described in Section 9.4. No conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, applies to the theoretical model presented in this paper.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>12.2 Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This research received no external funding, grant, or institutional support. It was conducted independently as part of the author&#8217;s ongoing artistic and practice-based research.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>12.3 Data Availability<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is a conceptual and theoretical study. No empirical data were collected, and none are therefore available to share. The empirical pathways proposed in Section 9.1 describe possible future studies rather than completed data collection.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>12.4 Author Contribution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Giovanni Biancofiore is the sole author of this work and is responsible for its conception, theoretical development, literature integration, and writing in full.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>12.5 Ethics Statement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As a theoretical and conceptual study involving no human participants, no animal subjects, and no primary data collection, this work did not require ethical review or approval. Any future empirical work arising from the pathways proposed in Section 9.1 would be conducted under the ethical oversight of the relevant partnering research institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":11,"template":"","class_list":["post-77","paf_section","type-paf_section","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paf_section\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paf_section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/paf_section"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovefrequencies.org\/microtonalia.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}