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

Stochastic resonance (SR) has been proposed to play a major role in auditory perception,
and to maintain optimal information transmission from the cochlea to the auditory system. By …

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 …

Cross-modal interactions are common in sensory processing, and phenomena reach from
changed perception within one modality due to input from another like in the well-known …

The prevalence of tinnitus is positively correlated with hearing loss, although, tinnitus can
also present alongside clinically normal pure-tone thresholds. As standard pure tone …

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

Recently, it was proposed that a processing principle called adaptive stochastic resonance
plays a major role in the auditory system, and serves to maintain optimal sensitivity even to …

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 …

Afferent innervation of the cochlea by the auditory nerve declines during aging and
potentially after sound overexposure, producing the common pathology known as cochlear …

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 …