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A Low Cost Setup for Behavioral Audiometry in Rodents
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A Low Cost Setup for Behavioral Audiometry in Rodents

A Low Cost Setup for Behavioral Audiometry in Rodents

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09:23 min

October 16, 2012

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09:23 min
October 16, 2012

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A fast and inexpensive method for the behavioral determination of hearing parameters like hearing thresholds, hearing impairments or phantom perceptions (subjective tinnitus) is described. It uses pre-pulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response and can be easily implemented in a personal computer using a programmable AD/DA-converter and a piezo sensor.

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