The role of sexual reward in the temporal patterning of copulatory behaviour in male rats

• Authors: J. Beck , M. Bialy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In 8 male rats instrumental responses reinforced by contact with an estrous female with an intact or a surgically closed vagina were investigated. Contact with the female lasted until the end of the mount bout. It was observed that neither the rewarding value of the mount bout (expressed by the duration of the response) nor its arousing properties (expressed by the rate of bar presses) depended on the quality (mounts or intromissions) or quantity of the copulatory events of which it was composed. It is suggested that the temporal patterning of <copulatory behaviour> in male rats depends on fluctuations of <sexual reward>. This sexual reward can be a result of both genital stimulation as well as the performance of mounting under the influence of sign stimuli coming from the estrous female.

Keywords

EN

CONSUMMATORY ACT; HEREDITARY COORDINATION; MOUNT BOUT; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR; SEXUAL REWARD; TEMPORAL PATTERNING

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Marceli Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Year: 1993
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 451-456

Contributors

author

J. Beck

author

M. Bialy

• Document Type: article
• Publication order reference: J.Beck