Heterogeneity of tinnitus imposes a challenge for its treatment. Identifying tinnitus subtypes
might help to establish individualized diagnosis and therapies. The minimum masking level …

Tinnitus patients can present with various characteristics, such as those related to the
tinnitus perception, symptom severity, and pattern of comorbidities. It is speculated that this …

Purpose The minimum masking level (MML) is the minimum intensity of a stimulus required
to just totally mask the tinnitus. Treatments aimed at reducing the tinnitus itself should …

Tinnitus masking and residual inhibition (RI) are two well-known psychoacoustic measures
of tinnitus. While it has long been suggested that they may provide diagnostic and …

Recent tinnitus research suggests an important role for attention in tinnitus perception,
particularly within the context of Auditory Scene Analysis and the relative salience of …

We used free-field audiometry to investigate the loudness perception of unilateral high-
frequency tinnitus in 16" normal-hearing" ears by comparing the results with loudness …

Objective: We explored the relationship between audiogram shape and tinnitus pitch to
answer questions arising from neurophysiological models of tinnitus:'Is the dominant tinnitus …

The phenomenon of tinnitus masking (TM) and residual inhibition (RI) of tinnitus are two
ways to investigate how external sounds interact with tinnitus: TM provides insight on the …

Objective: We sought to determine whether the results of audiological tests and tinnitus
characteristics, particularly tinnitus pitch and minimum masking level (MML), depend on …

Tinnitus masking patterns have long been known to differ from those used for masking
external sound. In the present study, we compared the shape of tinnitus tuning curves …