Effects of omni-directional noise-exposure during hearing onset and age on auditory spatial resolution in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) - a behavioral approach

Brain Research

Volumn 1220, Issue , 2008, Pages 47-57

  Maier, Julia K ^a   Kindermann, Teresa ^b   Grothe, Benedikt ^b   Klump, Georg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Development; Gerbil; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; HEARING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; GERBILLINAE; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

GERBILLINAE; MAMMALIA; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; OLEACEAE;

EID: 48949117170     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.01.083     Document Type: Article

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