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Rat pups, age 15 days, were exposed to an 80-dBA or a 100-dBA noise (100 Hz centered at 8 kHz) for 3 h/day for 30 days. As compared with control animals, noise exposure was found to activate behavior, as seen by increased incidence of grooming, play, and locomotion, and decreased incidence of sleep. Behavioral habituation occurred during the periods of noise exposure but did not occur from day to day. No indication of a noise-induced stress reaction, as measured by changes in adrenal gland weight and stomach ulceration, was found.
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Smiley, C. S., & Wilbanks, W. A. Noise and behavior: An explanatory study. Unpublished study, University of Georgia, 1979.
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The principal results of this study were presented to the 99th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, April 1980, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Smiley, C.S., Wilbanks, W.A. Effects of noise on early development in the rat. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 19, 181–183 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330224
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