Note on selective effects of short-term tobacco-abstinence on complex versus simple mental tasks.
Effects of a 15-hr. abstention from tobacco smoking in 12 habitual smokers were examined with 3 complex cognitive tests and 2 simple perceptual tests. Abstaining from tobacco led to improved performance on the complex tests but no change on the simple ones. The results are interpreted in terms of the inverted-U relation between performance and arousal.
D001143:Arousal / Q000187:drug effects; D003071:Cognition / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications*; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000187:drug effects*