R-weighting provides better estimation for rat hearing sensitivity

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 136-144

  Bjork E ^a   Nevalainen, T ^a   Hakumaki M ^a   Voipio, H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory sensitivity; Hearing; Physiology; Rat; Sound level; Weightings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE NOISE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034037913     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367700780457518     Document Type: Article

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