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Animal studies show that following damage to inner-ear receptors, central representations of intact lesion-edge (LE) frequencies become enlarged (map reorganization). One theory of tinnitus holds that this process could be related to the tinnitus sensation. To test this hypothesis, neuromagnetic evoked fields of tinnitus participants with high-frequency hearing loss and normal hearing controls were measured, while subjects listened to monaurally presented LE or control (CO; an octave below LE) tones. The predictions made based on the map reorganization hypothesis of tinnitus were that neuronal responses to LE frequencies would be enhanced, and that source localizations for LE would be distorted. N1m equivalent dipole moments for LE were not supranormal in the tinnitus group, whereas responses to CO of tinnitus patients compared to controls were enlarged in the right hemisphere. This effect was …