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Animal Acoustic Stimulus Generation and Startle Software
University of Pittsburgh
posted on 01/14/2010
This is a software program, developed via LabView programming language, which allows the user to generate acoustic stimuli for use in animal acoustic startle response experiments. The user can produce a variety of sound types including pure tones, white noise, and frequency chirps.
Suggested Uses
- Animal research
Advantages
- Software is able to generate a stream of different sounds without any gaps of silence and whose specific acoustic output is completely known.
Detailed Description
Commercial software that is currently available is unable to switch from one sound type to another without introducing a short gap of silence and/or extraneous audible sounds. These additional and unintended “sounds” are unacceptable for certain animal startle experiments in which the animal’s “auditory experience” must be precisely controlled.
The subject software uses a different algorithmic approach to bypass this aforementioned common hurdle and is able to generate a stream of different sounds without any gaps of silence and whose specific acoustic output is completely known.
File Number: 2070
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Stage of Development
A prototype version of software has been created and tested.
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