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Smoking a cigarette has no effect on visual temporal order discrimination in regular smokers
Author(s) -
BAKER P. JAMES,
WALSH TOM
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1996.91687913.x
Subject(s) - abstinence , equidistant , audiology , fixation (population genetics) , vigilance (psychology) , psychology , task (project management) , smoking cessation , fixation point , visual attention , medicine , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , mathematics , cognition , computer science , environmental health , artificial intelligence , population , geometry , management , pathology , economics
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 mere 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.