Olfactory conditioned partner preference in the female rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 716-725

  Coria Avila, Genaro A ^a,c   Ouimet, Allison J ^a,c   Pacheco, Pablo ^b   Manzo, Jorge ^b   Pfaus, James G ^a,c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appetitive; Conditioned place preference; Odor; Pacing; Sexual reward

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); COPULATION; EJACULATION; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; POSTURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SMELL;

EID: 21644460872     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.3.716     Document Type: Article

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