Social and Environmental Control of Reproductive Processes in Animals

Adler, Norman T.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0421-8_5

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“…The mean (± s.e.m.) number of pre-ejaculatory intromission patterns displayed by experimental (8-08 ± 0-74) and control (7-50 ± 0-65) males did not differ significantly (t = 0-59 Adler, 1978). The ejaculated plug also needs to be deposited firmly against the cervix to potentiate entry of spermatozoa into the uterus and to facilitate sperm transport (Blandau, 1945;Matthews & Adler, 1978).…”

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Role of striated penile muscles in penile reflexes, copulation, and induction of pregnancy in the rat

Sachs¹

1982

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Role of striated penile muscles in penile reflexes, copulation, and induction of pregnancy in the rat

Sachs¹

1982

Reproduction

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“…As before, the dependent measure was the time from the first intromission to ejaculation, ejaculation latency (EL). This is an index of the rate or intensity of copulation, because the number of intromissions necessary to reach ejaculation are stereotypical of rat copulation and relatively inflexible (Adler, 1978;Sachs & Barfield, 1976). EL was the most sensitive measure of conditioning in our previous experiments (Zamble,Hadad,Mitchell,& Cutmore,198S), and it is generally accepted as a good measure of sexual arousal (Sachs & Barfield, 1976).…”

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Pavlovian conditioning of sexual arousal: Parametric and background manipulations.

Zamble

Mitchell²,

Findlay³

1986

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

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Recent studies have shown that a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus (CS) for unconsummated sexual arousal can increase the rate of copulation in the rat. This report includes five experiments examining the effects of parametric manipulations on the conditioned arousal response. Results show that between six and nine trials are necessary for reliable conditioning, but extinction is somewhat slower than acquisition. The function for the CS-US (unconditioned stimulus) interval is quadratic, with a minimum of several minutes required for effective conditioning. In the first three experiments, it appeared that background cues were conditioned as well as the designated CSs, and this was tested explicitly in the last two studies. In one, the effect of background cues was shown by training and testing in different situations; in the second, background cues were shown to be subject to latent inhibition. These results demonstrate the influence of Pavlovian learning in sexual behavior and help to provide the basis for an animal model of the acquisition of deviant sexual arousal in humans.

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“…Mating-induced inhibition of female receptivity is of widespread phylogenetic occurrence and serves several adaptive functions (Adler, 1978). In species where females mate with more than one male, the elucidation of underlying mechanisms and adaptive functions is complicated by the realization that mating stimuli affect not only the female's reaction to the male that provided them but also her reaction to subsequent males as well as the length of her receptive period .…”

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Effect of the interintromission interval on lordotic response and attack latency in golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus).

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Ej³

1988

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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After 12-15 ejaculatory series, each consisting of several short intromissions (2- to 3-s vaginal penetration) and an ejaculation, male golden hamsters adopt an altered copulatory pattern consisting of long intromissions (5- to 25-s penetration with intravaginal thrusting). Receptivity declines and the tendency for the female to attack the male increases at about the time of this shift in copulatory pattern. Because the mean interintromission interval (III) between short intromissions is about 8 s compared to 100 s between long intromissions, it is possible that females detect this difference and adjust their mating accordingly. When the III between short intromissions from a rested male was experimentally increased to 100 s by use of a halter and lead device, the duration of lordosis was significantly less than that displayed by females paired with control males (8-s III) and virtually the same as that displayed by females paired with males that produced only long intromissions. This suggests that the female uses the temporal patterning of intravaginal stimulation as one criterion for terminating mating with a particular male.

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Social and Environmental Control of Reproductive Processes in Animals

Cited by 21 publications

References 83 publications

Role of striated penile muscles in penile reflexes, copulation, and induction of pregnancy in the rat

Role of striated penile muscles in penile reflexes, copulation, and induction of pregnancy in the rat

Pavlovian conditioning of sexual arousal: Parametric and background manipulations.

Effect of the interintromission interval on lordotic response and attack latency in golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus).

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