Sensitivity of the mouse to changes in azimuthal sound location: Angular separation, spectral composition, and sound level

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-277

  Allen, Paul D ^a   Ison, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum audible angle; Processing time; Spatial processing; Startle inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; MOUSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951638839     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018913     Document Type: Article

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