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Models of the Auditory System and Tinnitus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2011

Harry Levitt
Harry Levitt
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Models play a crucial role in the development of our understanding of the auditory (or any other) system. They provide new insights from both a theoretical and practical point of view as well as providing a framework for summarizing existing knowledge. Most important of all, they provide predictions which can be tested experimentally. These experimental observations, in turn, will either serve to strengthen a specific model or, if theory and observation differ significantly, will provide new information leading to the development of improved models and hence an improved understanding of the processes being studied.

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Session I. Mechanics of Tinnitus - Theory and Fact (Chairman: J. Vernon)
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 98 , supplement S9: Proceedings of the II International Tinnitus Seminar. New York, 10 and 11 June 1983 , June 1984 , pp. 25 - 30
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1984

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