Conditioned Place Preference for Mating Is Preserved in Rats With Pelvic Nerve Transection

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 539-546

  Meerts, Sarah H ^a   Clark, Ann S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

aversion; paced mating behavior; pelvic nerve; reinforcement; sexual behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; ORGAN SIZE; PELVIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 66349127491     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015267     Document Type: Article

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