1 Lee Y,López DE,Meloni EG,et al.A primary acoustic star-tle pathway:obligatory role of cochlear root neurons and thenucleus reticularis pontis caudalis[J].J Neurosci,1996,16:3775.

2 Parham K,Willott JF.Acoustic startle response in young andaging C57BL/6J and CBA/J mice[J].Behav Neurosci,1988,102:881.

3 Ornitz EM,Guthrie D,Kaplan AR,et al.Maturation of star-tle modulation[J].Psychophysiology,1986,23:624.

4 Ford JM,Roth WT,Isaacks BG,et al.Elderly men and womenare less responsive to startling noises:N1,P3 and blink evi-dence[J].Biol Psychol,1995,39:57.

5 Krauter EE,Wallace JE,Campbell BA.Sensory-motor func-tion in the aging rat[J].Behav Neural Biol,1981,31:367.

6 Koch M,Schnitzler HU.The acoustic startle response in rats--circuits mediating evocation,inhibition and potentiation[J].Behav Brain Res,1997,89:35.

7 Li L,Priebe RP,Yeomans JS.Prepulse inhibition of acousticor trigeminal startle of rats by unilateral electrical stimulationof the inferior colliculus[J].Behav Neurosci,1998,112:1187.

8 Zhang J,Engel JA,Ericson M,et al.Involvement of the medi-al geniculate body in prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle[J].Psychopharmacology(Berl),1999,141:189.

9 Ison JR,O'Connor K,Bowen GP,et al.Temporal resolutionof gaps in noise by the rat is lost with functional decortications[J].Behav Neurosci,1991,105:33.

10 Fendt M,Li L,Yeomans JS.Brain stem circuits mediatingprepulse inhibition of the startle reflex[J].Psychopharmacol-ogy(Berl),2001,156:216.

11 Friedman JT,Peiffer AM,Clark MG,et al.Age and experi-ence-related improvements in gap detection in the rat[J].Brain Res Dev Brain Res,2004,152:83.

12 Fitch RH,Threlkeld SW,McClure MM,et al.Use of a mod-ified prepulse inhibition paradigm to assess complex auditorydiscrimination in rodents[J].Brain Res Bull,2008,76:1.

13 Leitner DS,Hammond GR,Springer CP,et al.Parametersaffecting gap detection in the rat[J].Percept Psychophys,1993,54:395.

14 Threlkeld SW,Rosen GD,Fitch RH.Age at developmentalcortical injury differentially alters corpus callosum volume inthe rat[J].BMC Neurosci,2007,8:94.

15 Reijmers LG,Peeters BW.Effects of acoustic prepulses onthe startle reflex in rats:a parametric analysis[J].BrainRes,1994,667:144.

16 Crofton KM.Reflex modification and the detection of toxi-cant-induced auditory dysfunction[J].Neurotoxicol Tera-tol,1990,12:461.

17 Ludewig K,Ludewig S,Seitz A,et al.The acoustic startlereflex and its modulation:effects of age and gender in humans[J].Biol Psychol,2003,63:311.

18 Dawson ME,Hazlett EA,Filion DL,et al.Attention andschizophrenia:impaired modulation of the startle reflex[J].JAbnorm Psychol,1993,102:633.

19 Filion DL,Dawson ME,Schell AM.Modification of the a-coustic startle-reflex eyeblink:a tool for investigating earlyand late attentional processes[J].Biol Psychol,1993,35:185.

20 Yang G,Lobarinas E,Zhang L,et al.Salicylate induced tin-nitus:behavioral measures and neural activity in auditory cor-tex of awake rats[J].Hear Res,2007,226:244.

21 Clark MG,Rosen GD,Tallal P,et al.Impaired processingof complex auditory stimuli in rats with induced cerebrocorti-cal microgyria:An animal model of developmental languagedisabilities[J].J Cogn Neurosci,2000,12:828.

22 Ison JR,Allen PD,Rivoli PJ,et al.The behavioral responseof mice to gaps in noise depends on its spectral componentsand its bandwidth[J].J Acoust Soc Am,2005,117:3 944.

23 Willott JF,Turner JG.Neural plasticity in the mouse inferiorcilliaclus:relationship to hearing loss,augmented acousticstimulation,and prepulse mlubition[J].Hear Res,2000,147:275.

24 Calford MB,Rajan R,Irvine DR.Rapid changes in the fre-quency tuning of neurons in cat auditory cortex resulting frompure-tone-induced temporary threshold shift[J].Neuro-science,1993,55:953.

25 Turner JG,Willott JF.Exposure to an augmented acousticenvironment alters auditory function in hearing-impairedDBA/2J mice[J].Hear Res,1998,118:101.

26 Ison JR,Agrawal P,Pak J,et al.Changes in temporal acui-ty with age and with hearing impairment in the mouse:astudy of the acoustic startle reflex and its inhibition by briefdecrements in noise level[J].J Acoust Soc Am,1998,104:1 696.

27 Leonard LB,Bortolini U.Grammatical morphology and therole of weak syllables in the speech of Italian-speaking chil-dren with specific language impairment[J].J Speech LangHear Res,1998,41:1 363.

28 Okanoya K,Dooling RJ.Detection of gaps in noise by bud-gerigars(Melopsittacus undulatus)and zebra finches(Poe-phila guttata)[J].Hear Res,1990,50:185.

29 Peiffer AM,Rosen GD,Fitch RH.Sex differences in rapidauditory processing deficits in microgyric rats[J].Brain ResDev Brain Res,2004,148:53.

30 Benasich AA,Choudhury N,Friedman JT,et al.The infantas a prelinguistic model for language learning impairments:predicting from event-related potentials to behavior[J].Neuropsychologia,2006,44:396.

31 Choudhury N,Leppanen PH,Leevers HJ,et al.Infant in-formation processing and family history of specific languageimpairment:converging evidence for RAP deficits from twoparadigms[J].Dev Sci,2007,10:213.

32 Fitch RH,Tallal P,Brown CP,et al.Induced microgyriaand auditory temporal processing in rats:a model for lan-guage impairment[J].Cereb Cortex,1994,4:260.

33 Benasich AA,Thomas JJ,Choudhury N,et al.The impor-tance of rapid auditory processing abilities to early languagedevelopment:evidence from converging methodologies[J].Dev Psychobiol,2002,40:278.

34 Trehub SE,Henderson JL.Temporal resolution in infancy and su-bsequent language development[J].J Speech Hear Res,1996,39:1 315.

35 Sun W,Hansen A,Zhang L,et al.Neonatal nicotine expo-sure impairs development of auditory temporal processing[J].Hear Res,2008,245:58.