Age-related changes in auditory temporal processing in the rat

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 739-746

  Šuta, Daniel ^a,b   Rybalko, Natalia ^a   Pelánová, Jana ^a   Popelář, Jiří ^a   Syka, Josef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory temporal resolution; Gap detection; Gap duration discrimination; Middle latency response; Stimulation rate

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP DETECTION THRESHOLD; GAP DURATION DIFFERENCE LIMEN; MIDDLE LATENCY RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; PRESBYCUSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

RATTUS;

EID: 79960650782     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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