## Abstract ## Objective Recently, saccadic eye movement tasks have been used to assess the effects of nicotine on higher cognitive processes, including inhibitory control. Saccadic task switching methods suggest that there is prolonged inhibition of the saccadic eye movement system following anti
Effect of nicotine on saccades
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
- DOI
- 10.1002/hup.662
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