Social play experience in juvenile rats is indispensable for appropriate socio-sexual behavior in adulthood in males but not females.

Front Behav Neurosci · 2022 · PMC9899815 · PMID 36755666

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Although the sex × condition interaction did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.13), the mean difference in play levels between female BARR and ISO animals (12.7 vs. 29.0 play events) is much larger than that of male BARR and ISO animals (28.6 vs. 31.9 play events).

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