Behavioral discrimination of click intensity in cat.
Avoidance conditioning procedures were used to train cats to discriminate intensity differences between successive clicks. The discriminative behavior was applied in a modified method of adjustment to determine a difference limen (DL) for click intensity. The obtained DLs were consistent within and between subjects, and averaged 4.4 db. This value is greater than previously reported intensity DLs for pure tones in cats.
D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D002415:Cats; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D008297:Male