In healthy volunteers, intranasal oxytocin enhanced the subjective feeling of ownership in the rubber hand illusion, only when synchronous tactile stimulation was involved.
In plain wordsIn healthy volunteers, oxytocin made the feeling that a rubber hand was their own stronger, but only with matched touch.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreaseSubjective ownership in rubber hand illusion
- Study
n = 41
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Social behavior and cognition · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Results showed that IN-OT enhanced the subjective feeling of ownership in the RHI, only when synchronous tactile stimulation was involved.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The present, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study ( n = 41 healthy volunteers) aimed to investigate the effect of intranasal oxytocin (IN-OT) on multisensory integration processes, tested by means of the RHI and the SWI.