Spontaneous behavior in noise and silence: a possible new measure to assess tinnitus in guinea pigs

This study describes two experiments that were conducted in search for a behavioral paradigm to test for tinnitus in guinea pigs. Conditioning paradigms are available to determine the presence of tinnitus in animals and are based on the assumption that tinnitus impairs their ability to detect silent...

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Main Authors: Amarins Nieske Heeringa, Martijn Johannus H. Agterberg, Pim evan Dijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00207/full