Acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition in the Mongolian gerbil

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 460-466

  Gaese, Bernhard H ^a   Nowotny, Manuela ^a   Pilz, Peter K D ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Domestication; PPI; Prepulse inhibition; Rodents; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; FEMALE; GERBIL; HABITUATION; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SENSORY GATING; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70149099959     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.07.014     Document Type: Article

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