Oxytocin Modulates Attention Switching Between Interoceptive Signals and External Social Cues

Oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females.

In humans, interpersonal romantic attraction and the subsequent development of monogamous pair-bonds is substantially predicted by influential impressions formed during first encounters. The prosocial neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has been identified as a key facilitator of both interpersonal attraction and the formation of parental attachment. However, whether OXT contributes to the maintenance ...

Oxytocin and the salience of social cues.

T he neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) is rapidly moving from a molecule with interesting effects in model systems to an important mediator of a range of human social behaviors. In this issue of PNAS, Gamer et al. (1) report on a study in which they show that subjects given OT, relative to subjects given placebo, are more likely to make eye movements toward the eye region when viewing images of human ...

Oxytocin differentially modulates eye gaze to naturalistic social signals of happiness and anger.

A number of previous studies has shown that oxytocin (OT) promotes facial emotion recognition and enhances eye gaze to facial stimuli in humans. Other studies report valence-specific effects of OT, supporting the proposed prosocial role of OT in social interactions. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis whether OT might selectively enhance eye gaze to positive, approach-related, but no...

Social traits modulate attention to affiliative cues

Neurobehavioral models of personality suggest that the salience assigned to particular classes of stimuli vary as a function of traits that reflect both the activity of neurobiological encoding and relevant social experience. In turn, this joint influence modulates the extent that salience influences attentional processes, and hence learning about and responding to those stimuli. Applying this ...

Training attention: Interactions between central cues and reflexive attention