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Effects of nicotine in visual attention tasks

✍ Scribed by M. Lindgren; G. Stenberg; I. Rosén

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
413 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6222

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✦ Synopsis

Thirty-five male volunteers (18 nicotine-users and 17 controls) participated in an experiment where a flanker task and a search task were used. It was hypothesized that if nicotine affects selective attention, the effects of distracting flanker stimuli should be diminished, and effects of allocation strategies in the search task should be more marked. Nicotine-users performed the tasks after an overnight abstinence, and after administration of oral snuff. In both tasks nicotine users improved more than controls, but there were no indications of nicotine effects on selective attention in either task. Our results point towards a non-specific arousing effect of nicotine.

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