Pacing conditions contribute to the conditioned ejaculatory preference for a familiar female in the male rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-208

  Ismail, Nafissa ^a   Gelez, Hélène ^a   Lachapelle, Ivonne ^a   Pfaus, James G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Olfactory discrimination; Paced copulation; Partner preference; Pavlovian conditioning; Sexual arousal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; COPULATION; EJACULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EJACULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; ODORS; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58149498509     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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