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Savard 2022 findings arguing against bottom up processes in Misophonia

• In a 2022 study examining subjective aversiveness ratings and sound-source identification across trigger and non-trigger sounds at varying signal-to-noise ratios, Savard and colleagues found that individuals with high versus low misophonia, as assessed with the MisoQuest, did not differ in their ability to detect trigger sounds. This suggests that misophonia is unlikely to reflect a purely bottom-up sensory processing abnormality (Savard et al., 2022)
  • this also contradicts past research suggesting differences in low level auditory processing in Misophonics (Schröder et al., 2014)