The behavioral salience of tones as indicated by prepulse inhibition of the startle response: Relationship to hearing loss and central neural plasticity in C57BL/6J mice

Hearing Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 168-175

  Carlson, Stephanie ^a   Willott, James F ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; hearing loss; inbred mice; neural plasticity; startle response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 0030587157     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(96)00098-6     Document Type: Article

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