2025/09/01 by Benjamin J. Kirby, Alaina Cunningham, Olivia Montou Zant · 1 voice
Health Professions · Neuroscience · #Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation #Neuroscience and Music Perception #Noise Effects and Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.1121/10.0039238
openalex publication_date 2025/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Misophonia is a condition characterized by intense negative emotional reactions to trigger sounds and related stimuli. In this study, adult listeners (N = 15) with a self-reported history of misophonia symptoms and a control group without misophonia (N = 15) completed listening judgements of recorded misophonia trigger stimuli using a standard scale. Participants also completed an established questionnaire of misophonia symptoms, the Misophonia Questionnaire (MQ). Summed scores of the listening task were significantly correlated with overall MQ score. The misophonia group had significantly higher listening scores and MQ scores compared to controls. These findings indicate applications for psychoacoustic methods in the assessment of misophonia.