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evidence for Misophonia’s cognitive nature from results on the impact of context on emotional processing

in their 2025 literature review, Savard et all note that research suggests that the emotional reactions to sounds are significantly influenced by the cognitive context, rather then simply the result of the acoustic properties of the sound. for misophonia, this fact also gives strong evidence for it being based on a cognitive process rather then a simple sensory issue. (Savard & Coffey, 2025)