Intranasal oxytocin and the neural correlates of infant face processing in non-parent women
| Autor: | Xiaoyue M. Guo, Helena J. V. Rutherford, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Kelsey Graber, Linda C. Mayes, Nathan J. Hayes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Visual perception Oxytocin Placebo 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Double-Blind Method Oxytocics medicine Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Evoked Potentials Administration Intranasal Neural correlates of consciousness Cross-Over Studies General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Infant Crossover study Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Female Nasal administration Cues Psychology Facial Recognition 030217 neurology & neurosurgery medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Biological Psychology. 129:45-48 |
| ISSN: | 0301-0511 |
| Popis: | Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been widely employed to identify different stages of face processing, with recent research probing the neural dynamics of adult's processing of infant faces. Infant faces represent a salient category of visual stimuli, especially in parents, likely prioritized for processing through activity of the oxytocinergic system. Here we employed a randomized, double-blind, and within-subject crossover study of 24 non-parent women to examine the impact of intranasal oxytocin administration, relative to placebo, on processing infant and adult faces. Our main finding was that, relative to placebo, the P300 ERP elicited by infant faces was greater than the P300 elicited by adult faces in the oxytocin condition. Therefore, oxytocin administration may enhance the allocation of attention towards infant cues, even in non-parent women. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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