Intranasal oxytocin selectively attenuates rhesus monkeys' attention to negative facial expressions

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1748-1756

  Parr, Lisa A ^a   Modi, Meera ^a,b   Siebert, Erin ^a   Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Facial expression; Gaze; Oxytocin; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; RHESUS MONKEY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; AUTISM; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL COGNITION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883656621     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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