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The earlier finding should say the paper itself reports a small behavioural credibility result (df = 9, so about 10 raters; not stated separately here), consistent in direction with the EEG result, rather than implying EEG is the only credibility evidence and contrasting it with behavioural ratings in other work. Version/date. Accepted 27 Oct 2023.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Whether synthetic voice lowers credibility of narrated news. Conditions. Frontiers in Psychology 2023 study: a pre-experiment session plus a formal EEG/ERP session (30 participants). Method. The pre-experiment was a within-subject design replicating earlier studies on news attributed to machine versus human newscasters. Result. Human voices were perceived as more credible and fluent than AI voices (credibility t(9) = -4.000, p = 0.003; comprehensibility not significant). Correction. The earlier finding should say the paper itself reports a small behavioural credibility result (df = 9, so about 10 raters; not stated separately here), consistent in direction with the EEG result, rather than implying EEG is the only credibility evidence and contrasting it with behavioural ratings in other work. Version/date. Accepted 27 Oct 2023.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. 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