title: Effects of occupational exposure to organic solvents upon cognitive performance.
abstract: Twenty-three individuals exposed to mixed organic solvents were compared with 23 nonexposed controls on a number of cognitive performance tasks. Solvent exposure resulted in a significantly poorer performance on the forward digit span test, copying of a complex figure, and on semantic memory tests which also measure individual's ability to integrate linguistic information into cohesive units. These tasks rely heavily upon short-term memory and its integrative operations in higher cognitive function. Acute exposure effect was also observed for the linguistic integrative task.
authors: Department of Occupational Medicine, DZ Medvescak Marticeva, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Milanovic
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Spilich
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Vucinic
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Knezevic
authors: B
authors: B
authors: Ribaric
authors: Z
authors: Z
authors: Mubrin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000633:toxicity*; D003071:Cognition / Q000187:drug effects*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D012997:Solvents / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D012997:Solvents