Is the effect of tinnitus on auditory steady-state response amplitude mediated by attention?

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Diesch, Eugen ^a   Andermann, Martin ^b   Rupp, Andre ^b  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; Hyperexcitability; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STEADY STATE RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEADY STATE; TINNITUS;

EID: 84864996083     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2012.00038     Document Type: Article

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