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temporarily modulated sounds tend to stand out from background noise and grab peoples attention

• one acoustic property that tends to grab peoples attention is modulation. sound signals that are modulated tend to stand out from background noise, and some modulation rates are known to produce a “rough” sensation and are associated with greater perceptions of pleasantness/unpleasantness in some naturalistic sounds.
  • such sounds are also thought to be processed through bottom-up mechanisms
  • this has some implications for misophonia., as Misophonia triggers tend to share this feature (i.e. the modulation of chewing, modulation of leg swigging (leg position?) etc.)
  • (Savard et al., 2022)