Auditory frequency discrimination in patterned-sound-naive albino rats.
To test the hypothesis that prior patterned or varied auditory experience was necessary for the development of discrimination of auditory frequency, Sprague-Dawley albino rats were deprived of patterned sound from birth by the technique of rearing them in white noise. The sound-deprived rats learned a frequency discrimination as easily as controls reared in varied sound conditions.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005260:Female; D005795:Generalization, Stimulus; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010897:Pitch Discrimination; D051381:Rats; D011930:Reaction Time