Mechanistic insight is achieved only when experiments are employed to test formal or
computational models. Furthermore, in analogy to lesion studies, phantom perception may …

A curative therapy for tinnitus currently does not exist. One may actually exist but cannot
currently be causally linked to tinnitus due to the lack of consistency of concepts about the …

Despite the high prevalence of tinnitus in Germany of nearly 12% of the general population,
there have been no systematic studies on the socioeconomic costs for German society …

Noise is generally considered to harm information processing performance. However, in the
context of stochastic resonance, noise has been shown to improve signal detection of weak …

One-layer membrane separates the gradient field in and out of the cell, while some two-layer
membranes filled with excitable media/material are important to regulate the energy flow …

Recently, we proposed a model of tinnitus development based on a physiological
mechanism of permanent optimization of information transfer from the auditory periphery to …

The principle of stochastic resonance (SR) has been intensively used in designing
algorithms for incipient bearing fault diagnosis based on stochastic simulation. In order to …

In the field of neurobiology of language, neuroimaging studies are generally based on
stimulation paradigms consisting of at least two different conditions. Designing those …

Subjective tinnitus is a perceived sound in the absence of any objective sound source. This
phantom perception has severe consequences, ranging from insomnia to depression or …

The Zwicker tone illusion–an auditory phantom percept after hearing a notched noise
stimulus–can serve as an interesting model for acute tinnitus. Recent mechanistic models …