Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2015
Oxytocin increases bias, but not accuracy, in face recognition line-ups.
Trial report in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Impact of chronic intranasal oxytocin administration on face expression processing in autistic children: a randomized controlled trial using fMRI.Molecular autism · 2024Trial
- Acute effects of oxytocin in music performance anxiety: a crossover, randomized, placebo-controlled trial.Psychopharmacology · 2020Trial
- How does oxytocin modulate human behavior?Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Oxytocin enhances the triangular association among behavior, resting-state, and task-state functional connectivity.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Understanding face matching.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Gene-Environment Interactions in Face Categorization: Oxytocin Receptor Genotype x Childcare Experience Shortens Reaction Time.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Diagnosing developmental prosopagnosia: repeat assessment using the Cambridge Face Memory Test.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Identifying Hallmark Symptoms of Developmental Prosopagnosia for Non-Experts.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- When Does Oxytocin Affect Human Memory Encoding? The Role of Social Context and Individual Attachment Style.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Neurobiological Aspects of Face Recognition: The Role of Oxytocin.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Review
- Solving the Border Control Problem: Evidence of Enhanced Face Matching in Individuals with Extraordinary Face Recognition Skills.PloS one · 2016Article
- Effects of 7.5% carbon dioxide (CO2) inhalation and ethnicity on face memory.Physiology & behavior · 2015Article
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Abstract
Previous work indicates that intranasal inhalation of oxytocin improves face recognition skills, raising the possibility that it may be used in security settings. However, it is unclear whether oxytocin directly acts upon the core face-processing system itself or indirectly improves face recognition via affective or social salience mechanisms. In a double-blind procedure, 60 participants received either an oxytocin or placebo nasal spray before completing the One-in-Ten task-a standardized test of unfamiliar face recognition containing target-present and target-absent line-ups. Participants in the oxytocin condition outperformed those in the placebo condition on target-present trials, yet were more likely to make false-positive errors on target-absent trials. Signal detection analyses indicated that oxytocin induced a more liberal response bias, rather than increasing accuracy per se. These findings support a social salience account of the effects of oxytocin on face recognition and indicate that oxytocin may impede face recognition in certain scenarios.
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