3.3.3.c Experiment 2

This study was aimed at showing whether tinnitus could interfere with the attention capture classically observed in the oddball paradigm, according to the side and the severity of the perceived tinnitus.

Method

Participants

In this experiment, three groups of participants were tested: unilateral right (N = 10) or left (N = 10) tinnitus sufferers, bilateral (N = 10) tinnitus sufferers. The 30 participants had mean age = 45.78 years, SD = 13.03 years. The three groups did not differ regarding their mean age (right-tinnitus patients: 45.5, SD = 14.98; left-tinnitus patients: 46.7, SD = 12.43; bilateral-tinnitus patients: 45.1, SD = 16.30).