Funding
This study was part of a research project (G.0058.11N) granted by the Research Foundation—Flanders, Belgium (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [FWO]). Valéry Legrain is Research Associate at the Fund for Scientific Research of the French speaking Community of Belgium (F.R.S.-FNRS). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Grant Disclosures
The following grant information was disclosed by the authors:
Research Foundation—Flanders, Belgium (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [FWO]):
G.0058.11N.
French Speaking Community of Belgium (F.R.S.-FNRS).
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Annick L. De Paepe conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, preparedfigures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Valéry Legrain conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Lien Van der Biest conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, preparedfigures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Nadine Hollevoet conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Alexander Van Tongel conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Lieven De Wilde conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Herlinde Jacobs conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Geert Crombez conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved thefinal draft.
Human Ethics
The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):
The Ethics Committee of University Hospital Ghent granted Ethical approval to carry out the study (2013/706).
Data Availability
The following information was supplied regarding data availability:
Data is available at the OSF: Annick De Paepe, Valéry Legrain, Lien Van der Biest, Nadine Hollevoet, Alexander Van Tongel, Lieven De Wilde, Herlinde Jacobs, and Geert Crombez. 2020.“An Investigation of Perceptual Biases in CRPS.”OSF. March 12.
osf.io/x82wk.
Supplemental Information
Supplemental information for this article can be found online athttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/
peerj.8819#supplemental-information.
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