Re: [AUDITORY] Responses to "listening to your tinnitus"

[PIerre DIVENYI <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was involved in running auditory experiments using paid subjects, the objective was always to have them listen to and give simple directed judgment on a well specified aspect/property of the stimulus. I never instructed them to be mindful except that they were supposed to attend and respond to that particular dimension of the sound. If any one of them repeatedly wasn’t mindful enough to respond to that particular stimulus aspect, she/he didn’t get paid.

Pierre

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> On Aug 25, 2021, at 21:44, Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Pierre, Fatima, Dan, all auditory folks:
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> I really greatly appreciate all the responses and I am afraid there is a bit of people talking over each other (I think that's the phrase).  Pierre is correct in that I actually listen to the auditory signal, and try to analyze it in terms of the frequency composition, and this seems to help attenuate the loudness of the tinnitus itself (also, it tends to highly lateralize the tinnitus, which is generally fairly centrally located). 
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> But the others who are likening it to mindfulness-based training are also correct in that it involves focusing on and incorporating the tinnitus into my listening experience.  So perhaps my "analytic" approach to listening to tinnitus is a way of becoming very mindful of my tinnitus, in a way for me that was not achieved by just listening to it as an auditory event.
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> Does this make sense to folks?  And thank you again for all the thoughtful responses.
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> Brian