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results showing impaired cognitive control in Misophonics

a 2020 paper found that The study found that individuals who report stronger emotional and behavioral reactions to misophonia trigger sounds exhibit significantly worse cognitive control, as indicated by a larger Stroop effect, but only when exposed to misophonia-related sounds, not universally unpleasant ones. The Stroop task requires participants to name the ink color of a word while inhibiting the automatic tendency to read the word, with greater interference reflecting poorer cognitive control. This effect was independent of general personality traits like neuroticism. Additionally, both misophonia sensitivity and emotional reactivity were associated with slower cognitive processing and increased anxiety during exposure to aversive sounds, with emotional reactivity also predicting higher baseline anxiety. These findings suggest that misophonia is linked to functional depletion of cognitive control in symptom-provocation contexts, especially for individuals with strong emotional responses to trigger sounds. (Daniels et al., 2020)