Discrimination of direction in fast frequency-modulated tones by rats

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-58

  Gaese, Bernhard H ^a,c   King, Isabella ^a   Felsheim, Christian ^b   Ostwald, Joachim ^b   Von Der Behrens, Wolfger ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive procedure; Auditory threshold; Direction discrimination; FM sweep; Two alternative forced choice

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33644661577     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-005-0022-7     Document Type: Article

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