NeurosciencePsychoneuroendocrinologyPeer-reviewed
Oxytocin reduces top-down control of attention by increasing bottom-up attention allocation to social but not non-social stimuli
Xiaolei Xu, Jialin Li, Zhuo Chen…·Benjamin Becker
This study shows that oxytocin increases bottom-up attention to social stimuli but not non-social ones, reducing top-down attention inhibition, and this effect is modulated by trait behavioral inhibition and state anxiety.
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