Motivational influences on the degree and direction of sexual attraction

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1129, Issue , 2008, Pages 61-87

  Hernández González, Marisela ^a   Guevara, Miguel Angel ^a   Ågmo, Anders ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Copulation; EEG; Incentive motivation; Lordosis; Pelvic thrusting; Sexual incentives

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTIVATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; MOTIVATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 47249104239     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1417.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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