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A general model of processing stimuli suggests that when information does not provide informational value, then we gradually begin to ignore it. Such a model is consistent with the experience of many people in relation to background traffic noise when moving from a quiet to a noisy neighbourhood. I.e., the frequency with which external traffic noise enters ...
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The frequency is individual, and known as tinnitus frequency or pitch.
From Okamoto et al., 2010:
Our target notched music introduced a functional deafferentation of
auditory neurons corresponding to the eliminated frequency
band, and because this frequency band overlapped the individual
tinnitus frequency, the notched music no longer ...
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