Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner.

ABSTRACT: Communication through body gestures permeates our daily life. Efficient perception of the message therein reflects one's social cognitive competency. Here we report that such competency is manifested temporally as shortened subjective duration of social interactions: motion sequences showing agents acting communicatively are perceived to be significantly shorter in duration as compared with those acting noncommunicatively. The strength of this effect is negatively correlated with one's autistic-like tendency. Critically, intranasal oxytocin administration restores the temporal compression effect in socially less proficient individuals, whereas the administration of atosiban, a competitive antagonist of oxytocin, diminishes the effect in socially proficient individuals. These findings indic

SUBMITTER: Liu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963918 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature