Aberrant Auditory Prediction Patterns Robustly Characterize Tinnitus

In a one-of-a-kind manuscript, scientists successfully replicated aberrant auditory prediction patterns in tinnitus using two independent MEG studies.

It's a good quality study that replicated findings from the first study. It's well-controlled for hearing loss and age.

Findings? Significant differences in prediction values between tinnitus and healthy cohorts.

→ Aberrant Auditory Prediction Patterns Robustly Characterize Tinnitus

 

What does this mean?

 

It's a tough read. Dr. Will Sedley has been looking at prediction-based models, and this ties in. It mentions similarities between hallucinations. We expect sound; it is predicted. There is a different latency in tinnitus patients.

 

Lead author on the paper is Lisa Reisinger. Here is her breakdown in layman's terms:

https://x.com/LisaMReisinger/status/1791035396580659467

 

Does this mean they can now measure tinnitus?

 

It means we're different, at least in one way, from normal people, and more research could be done to determine how much more different we are.