An Integrative Tinnitus Model Based on Sensory Precision

Existing tinnitus models, including mutually exclusive mechanisms, invoke causes from the ear to high-level cortical brain networks. The generic framework of predictive coding explains perception as the integration of sensory information and prior predictions, each weighted by its precision. In our model, previously proposed neural correlates of ‘tinnitus’ largely relate to hearing damage, rather than to tinnitus per se, and reflect an increase...