Research
Oxytocin alters how the brain learns and remembers social hierarchies
PsyPost · By Karina Petrova ·
The Brief
- A study published in PNAS reports that oxytocin changes how the brain learns and retrieves information about social rank.
- According to the PsyPost summary, oxytocin boosts neural activity linked to learning social ranks.
- The same summary says oxytocin improves memory for networks of social relationships.
Why it matters
The findings add evidence that a hormone involved in social behaviour shapes how people encode and recall their position in social hierarchies, which may inform future work on social cognition.
Who’s affected
- neuroscientists and psychologists studying social cognition
- researchers working on oxytocin and social behaviour
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- #social hierarchy
- #neuroscience
- #memory
- #social cognition
The hormone oxytocin changes how the brain learns and retrieves information about where people stand in social hierarchies. A recent study published in PNAS reveals that oxytocin boosts neural activity associated with learning social ranks and improves memory for networks that do…
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PsyPost reports on the PNAS study
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Oxytocin alters how the brain learns and remembers social hierarchies