Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Responses to "listening to your tinnitus" From: PIerre DIVENYI <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:57:31 -0700When I was involved in running auditory experiments using paid subjects, the= objective was always to have them listen to and give simple directed judgme= nt on a well specified aspect/property of the stimulus. I never instructed t= hem to be mindful except that they were supposed to attend and respond to th= at particular dimension of the sound. If any one of them repeatedly wasn=E2=80= =99t mindful enough to respond to that particular stimulus aspect, she/he di= dn=E2=80=99t get paid. Pierre Sent from my autocorrecting iPad > On Aug 25, 2021, at 21:44, Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BF > Pierre, Fatima, Dan, all auditory folks: >=20 > I really greatly appreciate all the responses and I am afraid there is a b= it 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 analyz= e 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 th= e tinnitus, which is generally fairly centrally located).=20 >=20 > But the others who are likening it to mindfulness-based training are also c= orrect in that it involves focusing on and incorporating the tinnitus into m= y listening experience. So perhaps my "analytic" approach to listening to t= innitus is a way of becoming very mindful of my tinnitus, in a way for me th= at was not achieved by just listening to it as an auditory event. >=20 > Does this make sense to folks? And thank you again for all the thoughtful= responses. >=20 > Brian