Changes in temporal acuity with age and with hearing impairment in the mouse: A study of the acoustic startle reflex and its inhibition by brief decrements in noise level

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 1696-1704

  Ison, James R ^a   Agrawal, Punit ^a   Pak, James ^a   Vaughn, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STARTLE REFLEX;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; NOISE; STARTLE REACTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031687684     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424382     Document Type: Article

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