Sexual motivation in the male rat: The role of primary incentives and copulatory experience

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 176-185

  López, Hassan H ^a   Olster, Deborah H ^a   Ettenberg, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejaculation; Sexual experience; Sexual motivation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COPULATION; EJACULATION; ESTRUS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RUNNING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0344563445     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hbeh.1999.1535     Document Type: Article

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