Haha! I love that you asked this because I do this all the time, and my husband makes fun of me for it. There is evidence for this related to attention and dual tasking! Basically, if your brain has limited resources to pay attention to incoming info, hearing could interfere w/vision and vice versa.

In the notched noise therapy you can take white noise, which is like a “shh” sound across all sound frequencies, and then “notch” (make quieter) the frequencies around your tinnitus frequency. There are mixed findings as to how effective this is, but it is one treatment.

I am not researching tinnitus specifically, but from my colleagues in audiology I know that there are some tinnitus treatments similar to this, such as white noise or notched noise therapy to teach your brain to ignore the tinnitus frequency. So your own experience makes sense with that!

“my hypothesis was 'There are several projections to the visual claustrum in cats’. This was suspected but not known. And the grant just writes itself from there!”

Could you please add me? Thanks for putting this together!