Intranasal oxytocin enhances emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions and leaves eye-gaze unaffected

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 475-481

  Lischke, Alexander ^a,b   Berger, Christoph ^b   Prehn, Kristin ^c   Heinrichs, Markus ^d   Herpertz, Sabine C ^a   Domes, Gregor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Eye tracking; Facial emotion recognition; Oxytocin; Social cognition; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TASK; MOOD CHANGE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL COGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84857190030     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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