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Effects of oxytocin on behavioral and ERP measures of recognition memory for own-race and other-race faces in women and men

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Herzmann, Grit, Bird, Christopher W., Freeman, Megan, Curran, Tim·2013·Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Oxytocin has been shown to affect human social information processing including recognition memory for faces. Here we investigated the neural processes underlying the effect of oxytocin on memorizing own-race and other-race faces in men and women. In a placebo-controlled, double-blind, between-subject study, participants received either oxytocin or placebo before studying own-race and other-race faces. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) during both the study and recognition phase to investigate neural correlates of oxytocin's effect on memory encoding, memory retrieval, and perception. Oxytocin increased the accuracy of familiarity judgments in the recognition test. Neural correlates for this effect were found in ERPs related to memory encoding and retrieval but not perception. In contrast to its facilitating effects on familiarity, oxytocin impaired recollection judgments, but in men only. Oxytocin did not differentially affect own-race and other-race faces. This study shows that oxytocin influences memory, but not perceptual processes, in a face recognition task and is the first to reveal sex differences in the effect of oxytocin on face memory. Contrary to recent findings in oxytocin and moral decision making, oxytocin did not preferentially improve memory for own-race faces.

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Authors
Herzmann, G., Bird, C. W., Freeman, M., & Curran, T.
Affiliations
University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Corresponding author
Herzmann, Grit
Venue
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-10
Volume
38
Issue
10
Pages
2140-2151
ISSN
0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2138412270
Cited by
40
References
48
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FWCI
6.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR001082)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH096698, R01MH064812)
  • National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR025780)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
oxytocin, face memory, own-race effect, other-race effect, familiarity judgments, recollection, memory encoding, memory retrieval, event-related potentials, sex differences, social information processing
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Behavior, Double-Blind Method, Evoked Potentials, Face, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Oxytocin, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Placebos, Self Concept, Sex Factors, Recognition, Psychology, Racial Groups, Young Adult

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