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Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner
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...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29784084 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32100 |
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author | Liu, Rui Yuan, Xiangyong Chen, Kepu Jiang, Yi Zhou, Wen |
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description | 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 indicate that perceived time, rather than being a faithful representation of physical time, is highly idiosyncratic and ingrained with one’s personality trait. Moreover, they suggest that oxytocin is involved in mediating time perception of social interaction, further supporting the role of oxytocin in human social cognition. |
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spelling | pubmed-59639182018-05-24 Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner Liu, Rui Yuan, Xiangyong Chen, Kepu Jiang, Yi Zhou, Wen eLife Neuroscience 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 indicate that perceived time, rather than being a faithful representation of physical time, is highly idiosyncratic and ingrained with one’s personality trait. Moreover, they suggest that oxytocin is involved in mediating time perception of social interaction, further supporting the role of oxytocin in human social cognition. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5963918/ /pubmed/29784084 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32100 Text en © 2018, Liu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Liu, Rui Yuan, Xiangyong Chen, Kepu Jiang, Yi Zhou, Wen Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title | Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title_full | Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title_fullStr | Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title_full_unstemmed | Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title_short | Perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
title_sort | perception of social interaction compresses subjective duration in an oxytocin-dependent manner |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963918/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29784084 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32100 |
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