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predictive coding model suggests manipulation of sensory precision and expectations could act as a form of treatment in Misophonia and tinnitus

in there 2026 review, Melanthiou proposes that operating under a predictive coding error model of Misophonia and tinnitus, altering sensory precision and expectations, through combined sound-based therapies and cognitive restructuring, can rebalance bottom-up and top-down processing, thereby reducing the salience and autonomic reactivity to auditory stimuli in a way that is empirically testable. (Melanthiou et al., 2026)