Effects of Oxytocin on Emotion Recognition and Response Inhibition
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2017-01-01
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Summary
The purpose of this study is to shed light on the basic neurobiological mechanisms which
underlie social information processing in healthy men. More specifically, we intend to
examine whether a person's social competence level is related to the patterns of neural
activity and his visual search strategies during evaluation of social scenes. Furthermore, it
will be assessed whether an oxytocin-driven increase in activity in brain areas relevant to
the task will facilitate social information processing and thus enhance task performance.
Additionally it will be examined whether oxytocin can facilitate response inhibition in an
emotional context.