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. 2018 May 22;7:e32100. doi: 10.7554/eLife.32100

Figure 4. Oxytocin mediates temporal perception of social interactions.

Figure 4.

(A-D) Psychometric functions for Experiments 5 and 6 where high AQ observers (A-B) and low AQ observers (C-D) completed the duration judgment task of upright motion sequences both before (light gray curves) and after the nasal administration of oxytocin (red curve in A), atosiban (blue curves in B and C) or saline (dark gray curve in D). Insets show the PSEs. (E) The PSEs after drug administration versus those before drug administration for high AQ individuals treated with oxytocin (light brown dots with red circles), high AQ individuals treated with atosiban (light brown dots with blue circles), low AQ individuals treated with atosiban (dark brown dots with blue circles) and low AQ individuals treated with saline (dark brown dots with gray circles). A slope of 1 (dashed diagonal line) represents comparable PSEs before and after drug administration. (F) Bivariate distributions of 1000 bootstrapped sample means for each group. Error bars: standard errors of the mean; *p<0.05, ***p≤0.001.