In non-parent women, after intranasal oxytocin the P300 evoked by infant faces was greater than the P300 evoked by adult faces, relative to placebo.
In plain wordsIn women without children, oxytocin made a brain response to infant faces larger than to adult faces, compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseP300 ERP to infant faces versus adult faces
- Study
n = 24
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Brain and neuronal activity · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Our main finding was that, relative to placebo, the P300 ERP elicited by infant faces was greater than the P300 elicited by adult faces in the oxytocin condition.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Here we employed a randomized, double-blind, and within-subject crossover study of 24 non-parent women to examine the impact of intranasal oxytocin administration, relative to placebo, on processing infant and adult faces.