Oxytocin increases recognition of masked emotional faces

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1378-1382

  Schulze, Lars ^a,b   Lischke, Alexander ^c,d   Greif, Jonas ^d   Herpertz, Sabine C ^c   Heinrichs, Markus ^e   Domes, Gregor ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Faces; Oxytocin; Peptides; Recognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051989723     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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