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. 2023 Jan 23;16:1076765. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1076765

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Juvenile play deprivation has no effect on copulatory behavior in adult females. Lordosis quotient (A), the number of lordoses exhibited by the female divided by the total number of mounts by the stimulus male, and the number of proceptive behaviors (B), the total number of hops, darts, and solicitations, exhibited in a 10-min test with a sexually experienced adult male stimulus rat on P63 for the short duration barrier study, with the same measures shown for the long duration barrier study in (C,D). Bars indicate group means ± SEM, and open circles represent data from individual rats. n = 7–14 per group.