The acute effects of intranasal oxytocin on automatic and effortful attentional shifting to emotional faces

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-137

  Ellenbogen, Mark A ^a   Linnen, Anne Marie ^a   Grumet, Robin ^a   Cardoso, Christopher ^a   Joober, Ridha ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Disengagement; Emotional pictures; Oxytocin; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455179323     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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