Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Performance on three preoperative and three postoperative copulation tests was compared for male rats given dorsal hippocampal, dorsal hippocampal plus cortical, other lesion, and sham lesions. Dorsal hippocampal lesions produced statistically significant changes in the temporal pacing of some components of sexual behavior, i.e. the post-ejaculatory interval, intercopulatory interval, and total test time decreased. Hippocampal plus cortical lesions had no effect on sexual behavior. The results are interpreted as supporting a model of inhibition in which a sexual inhibitory process is built up concomitantly with the sexual arousal process.

Extent

79 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.

Identifier

FADT13700

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