Smoking a cigarette has no effect on visual temporal order discrimination in regular smokers.
A temporal order discrimination task was performed by 20 regular smokers who were tested with and without a pre-test cigarette in a repeated measures design following overnight abstinence. Subjects were asked to discriminate the temporal order of the rapid sequential illumination of two lights positioned equidistant from a central fixation point. None of the measures of performance in this task were significantly affected by smoking.
Baker
P J
PJ
St. Bartholomew's School of Medicine, London, UK.
Walsh
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000187:drug effects; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009538:Nicotine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011601:Psychophysics; D012691:Serial Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000187:drug effects
D009538:Nicotine