{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,13]],"date-time":"2025-11-13T21:56:30Z","timestamp":1763070990142,"version":"3.37.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"American Academy of Audiology","issue":"3","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["j am acad audiol"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p><jats:bold>Background:<\/jats:bold>Tinnitus sufferers commonly report concentration difficulties. Despite several previous studies investigating this, the underlying cause and the role of hearing status remains unclear.<jats:bold>Purpose:<\/jats:bold>To investigate whether there are any differences between normal hearing\n individuals with and without tinnitus in terms of working memory capacity, and whether working memory capacity correlates with high-frequency hearing thresholds.<jats:bold>Research Design:<\/jats:bold>Participants had their hearing thresholds measured (0.125\u201016 kHz) and performed a visual n-back test.\n All participants completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, in addition tinnitus participants filled out the Tinnitus Questionnaire.<jats:bold>Study Sample:<\/jats:bold>Sixty-two individuals participated, 31 had tinnitus (tinnitus group) and 31 did not have tinnitus (control group). Groups were age-\n and sex matched, and all participants had normal hearing thresholds (20 dB HL or better at 0.125\u20108 kHz).<jats:bold>Data Analysis:<\/jats:bold>Friedman test of differences among repeated measures was conducted on the collected data of n-back performance, and Mann\u2010Whitney <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>-test was used\n to compare groups. Age-corrected correlations were calculated for high-frequency hearing and each n-back condition.<jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold>We found no significant differences between the groups in terms of n-back task performances, except for the 2-back condition where the tinnitus group performed\n significantly better than the controls (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.007). Furthermore, we found high-frequency hearing thresholds of the best ear (10\u201016 kHz) to correlate with performances at more demanding n-back conditions (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.029 for 1-back and <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.015 for 2-back).<jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>This\n suggests that presence of tinnitus might not imply poorer working memory capacity and that deteriorated high-frequency hearing thresholds.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3766\/jaaa.17048","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,2]],"date-time":"2018-02-02T01:05:15Z","timestamp":1517533515000},"page":"169-177","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["The Impact of Tinnitus on N-Back Performance in Normal Hearing Individuals"],"prefix":"10.3766","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Sebastian","family":"Waechter","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Linda","family":"Hallendorf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emelie","family":"Malmstein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anna","family":"Olsson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"K. Jonas","family":"Br\u00e4nnstr\u00f6m","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2087","container-title":["Journal of the American Academy of Audiology"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/aaa\/jaaa\/2019\/00000030\/00000003\/art00002","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,6]],"date-time":"2025-02-06T08:06:44Z","timestamp":1738829204000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/10.3766\/jaaa.17048"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]]}},"alternative-id":["1050-0545(20190301)30:3L.169;1-"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3766\/jaaa.17048","relation":{},"ISSN":["1050-0545"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1050-0545"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]]}}}