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In their 2024 literature review on misophonia and the role of social cognition, Berger discusses how the findings of (Kumar et al., 2017) which reported no differences in primary auditory cortex activation, appear to contrast with those of (Schröder et al., 2019)’s, who observed increased activity in the posterior right superior temporal cortex in individuals with misophonia. However, Schröder et al. localized this effect to the lateral posterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, a higher-order multimodal region implicated in visual motion and social perception rather than primary auditory processing. Importantly, this increased activation was not found in the core auditory cortex. The absence of differential activation in primary auditory regions therefore suggests that misophonia trigger sounds are not processed differently at early stages of auditory processing compared to controls (Berger et al., 2024).