A cooperative function for multisensory stimuli in the induction of approach behavior of a potential mate.

ABSTRACT: Intrasexual competition is an important element of natural selection in which the most attractive conspecific has a considerable reproductive advantage over the others. The conspecifics that are approached first often become the preferred mate partners, and could thus from a biological perspective have a reproductive advantage. This underlines the importance of the initial approach and raises the question of what induces this approach, or what makes a conspecific attractive. Identification of the sensory modalities crucial for the activation of approach is necessary for elucidating the central nervous processes involved in the activation of sexual motivation and eventually copulatory behavior. The initial approach to a potential mate depends on distant stimuli in the modalities of audition

SUBMITTER: Agmo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5357056 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature