A low cost setup for behavioral audiometry in rodents

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 68, 2012, Pages

  Tziridis, Konstantin ^a   Ahlf, Sönke ^a   Schulze, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Audiogram; Auditory startle response; Behavior; Hearing loss; Issue 68; Medicine; Neuroscience; Otolaryngology; Physiology; Pre pulse inhibition; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868293593     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/4433     Document Type: Article

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