In healthy men, intranasal oxytocin increased the number of fixations toward the eye region of faces versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn healthy men, oxytocin led to more eye fixations on the eye region of faces than placebo.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseNumber of fixations toward the eye region
- Study
n = 52
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 24 IU · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Participants given oxytocin showed an increased number of fixations and total gaze time toward the eye region compared with placebo participants.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, between-subject design, we tracked the eye movements of 52 healthy male volunteers who were presented with 24 neutral human faces after intranasal administration of 24 IU oxytocin or placebo.