Urinary oxytocin positively correlates with performance in facial visual search in unmarried males, without specific reaction to infant face

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 JUL, 2014, Pages

  Saito, Atsuko ^a   Hamada, Hiroki ^a   Kikusui, Takefumi ^b   Mogi, Kazutaka ^b   Nagasawa, Miho ^b   Mitsui, Shohei ^b   Higuchi, Takashi ^c   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a   Hiraki, Kazuo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive task; Infant; Oxytocin; Social cognition; Visual search

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FACE; FACIAL VISUAL SEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SINGLE MAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; URINALYSIS; VISION;

EID: 84905914988     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00217     Document Type: Article

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