Differential reductions in acoustic startle document the discrimination of speech sounds in rats

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1884-1887

  Floody, Owen R ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^b  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; RATS;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE DOCUMENT; DIFFERENTIAL REDUCTIONS; NEUTRAL STIMULUS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PHONETICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 34848818755     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2770548     Document Type: Article

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