Dr. Michael Kilgard

We do an audiogram.

We can tell what their frequency where they've lost are.

We don't know what their brain is required to play in their head.

You first have to teach them about octave confusion.

If you're a music guy, you know I'm not a music guy.

I'm not a music guy.

But if you get the wrong octave, it's easy to confuse one octave higher, and we don't know what tone they're actually hearing.

So it's a little bit.

You have to teach them about some tones sound the same, but they're just double the sound is the point.

But once you can figure out what they're hearing, we then want all the other neurons to be important.

So the idea we've talked about is that set of neurons is too important.

It's doing something really important.

Why?

Because you're paying attention to it.

It must be important because you keep paying attention to it.

So I want to reward everybody but this set.

So I play a low tone, lower than the thing, a high tone, higher than it.

I'm trying to strengthen all the other neurons.

Back in that science paper back in the day, by playing multiple different tones, it narrows receptive fields.

So in this Nature paper from 2011, which we first treated tinnitus in animals, what we saw that was most correlated was actually receptive field size.