Sentences with phrase «mice heard the sound»

When they next measured responses in the auditory regions of the brain, a more sensitive test, the mice responded to much quieter sounds: 19 of 25 mice heard sounds quieter than 80 decibels, and a few could heard sounds as soft as 25 - 30 decibels, like normal mice.

However, the fear often returns spontaneously if the mouse hears the sound later on.

From then on, whenever the mice heard the sound, they remembered their fearful experience, and showed signs of experiencing fear.

Not exact matches

But when such mice were given the CRISPR treatment, they responded to quieter sounds at four weeks, and were still able to hear very loud sounds at eight weeks.

The scientists observed that as the number of mice in the cage increased, so did their hearing threshold — the minimum sound level at which they are able to hear sounds.

To test hearing, the researchers placed the mice in a «startle box» and sounded abrupt, loud tones.

Researchers from the Eaton - Peabody Laboratories of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have created a new mouse model in which by expressing a gene in the inner ear hair cells — the sensory cells that detect sound and sense balance — protects the mice from age - related hearing loss (ARHL) and noise - induced hearing loss (NIHL), the two most common forms of deafness.

In the new study in mice, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found that nerve cells dedicated to hearing also rely on surrounding context to properly interpret and react to familiar sounds.

Sounds thought to cause only temporary hearing loss have destroyed nerve cells in the ears of mice.

Mice can be conditioned to fear a sound by giving them an electric shock every time they hear it.

And there is more similarity than that: when mice or people hear a soft sound before being startled, they don't jump as much.

This may be why tone discrimination improved, says Blundon: mice exposed to one sound were now startled to hear a second tone of similar pitch.

It wasn't a complete cure, but injected mice could still hear very loud sounds when they were 8 weeks old, unlike uninjected mice (Nature, doi.org/chnx).

And recognize that the sounds you hear sound really big, but almost everything you hear at night is probably a mouse or chipmunk.

That was followed by confirmation of specs and a release date — in 3 — 4 weeks which confirms an August release we've been hearing about, and some of the rumored specs are confirmed — a 10.1 ″ 1280 x 800 display, capacitive touch screen with stylus support, an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip and «some kind of trackpoint» which sounds like an optical mouse.

There's no sense of flimsy plastic or creaking when you grip it hard, and even when you give it a little shake there isn't that slight rattling sound typically heard in a mouse.

The sound is mostly a hissing, ambient noise, but soon one begins to hear the scurrying of mice and a dog barking outside.

I first noticed we had a mouse problem when laying in bed one night and I heard a scurrying sound in the Attic.