Frequency discrimination in rats measured with tone-step stimuli and discrete pure tones

Hearing Research

Volumn 251, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 60-69

  Sloan, Andrew M ^a   Dodd, Owen T ^a   Rennaker II, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Albino rat; Frequency discrimination; Repeating standard; Response latency; Tone duration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TONE STEP STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 64249137604     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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