From Chewing to Chirping: The Misophonia Audiovisual Trigger Archive (MATA)

Misophonia is an emerging condition in which everyday sounds, such as chewing, sniffing, or tapping, evoke disproportionately intense emotional and physiological responses. Despite growing recognition of its clinical significance, progress in understanding misophonia has been hindered by the limited availability of standardized and ecologically valid stimulus sets. Here, we present a large, open-access archive of over 1,400 five-second audiovisual clips spanning 12 empirically informed categories of misophonic triggers. This resource includes a diverse array of real-world triggers and extends beyond commonly studied orofacial movement-related sounds, while its audiovisual format enables systematic investigation of how visual context shapes responses to misophonic sounds. The archive lowers the barrier for laboratories to study misophonia, promotes reproducibility across sites, and may support applications ranging from crowdsourced assessments of population-level sensitivities to machine learning approaches for automated trigger detection. By providing a large and diverse audiovisual misophonia stimulus repository, this resource is designed to accelerate mechanistic, clinical, and translational research on misophonia and related sensory-emotional phenomena.