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Low-frequency oscillations in the delta and theta bands have been recently described in brain and cochlear infrasonic signals during selective attention paradigms in normal hearing controls. Here, we propose that the top-down oscillatory activity observed in brain and cochlear signals during auditory and visual selective attention in normal subjects, is altered in tinnitus patients, reflecting an abnormal functioning of the corticofugal pathways that connect brain circuits with the cochlear receptor.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>To test this hypothesis, we used a behavioral task that alternates between auditory and visual top-down attention while we simultaneously measured electroencephalogram (EEG) and distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) signals in 14 tinnitus and 14 control subjects.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We found oscillatory activity in the delta and theta bands in cortical and cochlear channels in control and tinnitus patients. There were significant decreases in the DPOAE oscillatory amplitude during the visual attention period as compared to the auditory attention period in tinnitus and control groups. We did not find significant differences when using a between-subjects statistical approach comparing tinnitus and control groups. On the other hand, we found a significant cluster in the delta band in tinnitus when using within-group statistics to compare the difference between auditory and visual DPOAE oscillatory power.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>These results confirm the presence of top-down infrasonic low-frequency cochlear oscillatory activity in the delta and theta bands in tinnitus patients, showing that the corticofugal suppression of cochlear oscillations during visual and auditory attention in tinnitus patients is preserved.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fncir.2023.1301962","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,4]],"date-time":"2024-01-04T05:04:16Z","timestamp":1704344656000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The corticofugal oscillatory modulation of the cochlear receptor during auditory and visual attention is preserved in tinnitus"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Rodrigo","family":"Donoso-San Mart\u00edn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexis","family":"Leiva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Constantino D.","family":"Dragicevic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vicente","family":"Medel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paul H.","family":"Delano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1155\/2011\/158970","article-title":"ELAN: A software package for analysis and visualization of MEG, EEG, and LFP signals.","volume":"2011","author":"Aguera","year":"2011","journal-title":"Comput. 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