Gap detection in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)

Hearing Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 11-16

  Wagner, Eva ^a   Klump, Georg M ^a,b   Hamann, Ingo ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gap detection; Gerbil; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; GERBILLINAE; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037316714     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(02)00643-3     Document Type: Article

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