ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020
Tinnitus Does Not Interfere with Auditory and Speech Perception.
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- Central auditory and tinnitus consequences of pediatric chronic otitis media with effusion.Hearing research · 2025Article
- Abnormally enhanced temporal correlations of alpha oscillations across multiple timescales in tinnitus patients.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Objective autonomic signatures of tinnitus and sound sensitivity disorders.Science translational medicine · 2025Article
- Can Mismatch Negativity Be Used as an Indicator to Predict Central Auditory Deficits in Individuals with Normal Hearing?Audiology research · 2025Article
- Comparing Patient-Specific Variations in Intra-Cochlear Neural Health Estimated Using Psychophysical Thresholds and Panoramic Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potentials (PECAPs).Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025Article
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- Peripheral and central auditory dysfunction, cardiometabolic multimorbidity, and cognitive performance in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Auditory brainstem responses as a biomarker for cognition.Communications biology · 2024Article
- A prospective cohort study of cochlear implantation as a treatment for tinnitus in post-lingually deafened individuals.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- Attention-Modulated Cortical Responses as a Biomarker for Tinnitus.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Tinnitus and Hyperacusis May Affect Hearing Quality in Individuals with Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Prospective Controlled Study.Journal of clinical practice and research · 2024Article
- The human pupil and face encode sound affect and provide objective signatures of tinnitus and auditory hypersensitivity disorders.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Review and Perspective on Brain Bases of Tinnitus.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Review
- The interference of tinnitus on sound localization was related to the type of stimulus.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- DSLJournal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Influence of tinnitus annoyance on hearing-related quality of life in cochlear implant recipients.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Tinnitus is a sound heard by 15% of the general population in the absence of any external sound. Because external sounds can sometimes mask tinnitus, tinnitus is assumed to affect the perception of external sounds, leading to hypotheses such as "tinnitus filling in the temporal gap" in animal models and "tinnitus inducing hearing difficulty" in human subjects. Here we compared performance in temporal, spectral, intensive, masking and speech-in-noise perception tasks between 45 human listeners with chronic tinnitus (18 females and 27 males with a range of ages and degrees of hearing loss) and 27 young, normal-hearing listeners without tinnitus (11 females and 16 males). After controlling for age, hearing loss, and stimulus variables, we discovered that, contradictory to the widely held assumption, tinnitus does not interfere with the perception of external sounds in 32 of the 36 measures. We interpret the present result to reflect a bottom-up pathway for the external sound and a separate top-down pathway for tinnitus. We propose that these two perceptual pathways can be independently modulated by attention, which leads to the asymmetrical interaction between external and internal sounds, and several other puzzling tinnitus phenomena such as discrepancy in loudness between tinnitus rating and matching. The present results suggest not only a need for new theories involving attention and central noise in animal tinnitus models but also a shift in focus from treating tinnitus to managing its comorbid conditions when addressing complaints about hearing difficulty in individuals with tinnitus.
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