Auditory frequency and intensity discrimination in pigmented rats

Hearing Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 107-113

  Syka, Josef ^a   Rybalko, Natalia ^a   Brožek, Gustav ^b   Jilek, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

frequency discrimination; hooded rat; intensity discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 0030272206     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(96)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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