Bilateral cochlear implantation in the ferret: A novel animal model for behavioral studies

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-228

  Hartley, Douglas E H ^a   Vongpaisal, Tara ^a   Xu, Jin ^b   Shepherd, Robert K ^b   King, Andrew J ^a   Isaiah, Amal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bilateral cochlear implantation; Binaural hearing; Cochlear implant; Deafness; Ferret; Hearing loss; Neural prosthesis; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FERRET; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODEL; EAR; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMPEDANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EAR; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FERRETS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954214430     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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