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Masking-Mechanisms (IPSI, Contralateral Masking)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2011

H. Feldmann
Affiliation:
(Mönster, West Germany)

Extract

Masking of tinnitus by acoustic stimuli seems to be a very simple phenomenon, reflecting everyday experience. The buzzing of a mosquito is drowned by the noise of a jet-plane. That is self-evident and does not need any explanation. It seems to be a perfect analogue to the masking of tinnitus. But if we look into these two situations more closely we find fundamental differences between them, which ask for interpretation.

Type
Session I. Mechanics of Tinnitus - Theory and Fact (Chairman: J. Vernon)
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1984

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