Long- and short-term habituation of acoustic startle is not frequency specific in the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 643-649

  Jordan, Wesley P ^a   Poore, Laura H ^a  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Frequency specificity; Habituation; Lick suppression

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HABITUATION; LICKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS;

EID: 0032519791     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00512-X     Document Type: Article

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