A quantitative analysis of psychometric functions for different auditory tasks in gerbils

Hearing Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-37

  Gleich, Otto ^a   Hamann, Ingo ^a   Kittel, Malte C ^a   Klump, Georg M ^b   Strutz, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Gap detection; Hearing loss; Presbyacusis; Psychoacoustic testing; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; HEARING LOSS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GERBILLINAE; LOGISTIC MODELS; NOISE; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748302024     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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