The Effect of Withdrawal and Intake of Nicotine on Smokers' Ability to Ignore Distractors in a Number Parity Decision Task
Nicotine's attention enhancing effects are often attributed to enhancement of stimulus filtering by the attention networks. We investigated distractibility in 20 abstinent cigarette smokers (9 hours overnight; phase 1) and tested them again after smoking one cigarette (phase 2). Their performan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Psychiatry Journal |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/823158 |