Penner M J
Psychology Department, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
J Speech Hear Res. 1988 Mar;31(1):98-102. doi: 10.1044/jshr.3101.98.
Data from two psychophysical tasks are presented. In the first, 8 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus adjusted the intensity of a continuous monaural noise to mask the tinnitus. In the second, in the presence of continuous monaural noise, the same subjects adjusted the intensity of a pulsed monaural tone to match the loudness of the tinnitus. The tone was either ipsilateral or contralateral to the noise. Although the noise level required to mask the tinnitus increased substantially, as did the level of the ipsilateral matching tone, the change in the level of the contralateral matching tone was minimal. One possible explanation of these findings is related to the functioning of the peripheral auditory system.
呈现了来自两项心理物理学任务的数据。在第一项任务中，8名患有感音神经性听力损失和耳鸣的受试者调整连续单耳噪声的强度以掩盖耳鸣。在第二项任务中，在连续单耳噪声存在的情况下，相同的受试者调整脉冲单耳音调的强度以匹配耳鸣的响度。该音调与噪声同侧或对侧。尽管掩盖耳鸣所需的噪声水平大幅增加，同侧匹配音调的水平也是如此，但对侧匹配音调水平的变化最小。这些发现的一种可能解释与外周听觉系统的功能有关。
