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Samermit 2022 findings on alternative source videos in Misophonia

in a 2022 study, Samermit sought to establish a database of sound swapped videos to act as Misophonia stimuli in research. specifically, they sought to validate audio-video parings that leveraged acoustic ambiguity in some sounds to manipulate the individuals ability to identify sound sources in videos. this was done by pairing trigger source sounds with plausible alternative visuals, and having participants review all the videos and give individualized aversiveness ratings. the authors found significant reductions in Misophonic resposnes when the audio was paired with a pleasant visual, validating the stimulus set and demonstrating the top down aspect of the Misophonic response. (Samermit et al., 2022)