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ReviewFrontiers in neurology2014

Tinnitus what and where: an ecological framework.

Grant D Searchfield

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Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Tinnitus Measured in Everyday Life: A Literature Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025
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  8. Too Blind to See the Elephant? Why Neuroscientists Ought to Be Interested in Tinnitus.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021
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  10. Emerging Topics in the Behavioral Neuroscience of Tinnitus.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021
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  11. Momentary Analysis of Tinnitus: Considering the Patient.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021
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  12. Principles and Methods for Psychoacoustic Evaluation of Tinnitus.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021
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  16. Perceptual Dimensions Underlying Tinnitus-Like Sounds.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2020
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  17. The Neural Bases of Tinnitus: Lessons from Deafness and Cochlear Implants.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Grant D SearchfieldSection of Audiology, School of Population Health, Centre for Brain Research, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland , Auckland , New Zealand ; Tinnitus Research Initiative , Regensburg , Germany.
University of Auckland · NZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tinnitus is an interaction of the environment, cognition, and plasticity. The connection between the individual with tinnitus and their world seldom receives attention in neurophysiological research. As well as changes in cell excitability, an individual's culture and beliefs, and work and social environs may all influence how tinnitus is perceived. In this review, an ecological framework for current neurophysiological evidence is considered. The model defines tinnitus as the perception of an auditory object in the absence of an acoustic event. It is hypothesized that following deafferentation: adaptive feature extraction, schema, and semantic object formation processes lead to tinnitus in a manner predicted by Adaptation Level Theory (1, 2). Evidence from physiological studies is compared to the tenants of the proposed ecological model. The consideration of diverse events within an ecological context may unite seemingly disparate neurophysiological models.

Indexed as

adaptationattentionecologymodelpsychoacousticstinnitus

Identifiers

PMID25566177
PMCPMC4266022
OpenAlexW2003079766

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