Does noise mask exist in rat primary auditory cortex? (Ye Changquan )

Subject: Does noise mask exist in rat primary auditory cortex?
From:    Ye Changquan  <yechangquan(at)GMAIL.COM>
Date:    Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:01:39 +0800

Dear all,

I am a ph.D student with electrophysiology backgroud, and want to test
some psychoacoustic phenomena in primary auditory cortex of rats. 
When a noise was inserted into the middle of a tone, human or
non-human primates still percept as a complete tone.  I am wondering
whether anyone performed such experiments in rats testing with
single-unit recording, or rats do not have such percepts.  If you have
any suggestion or reference, please mail me.  Thank you!

Yours
Changquan Ye
--
Lab of Neural Plasticity
Institute of Neuroscience
320 Yueyang Road, 200031
Shanghai, China