Note on Selective Effects of Short-Term Tobacco-Abstinence on Complex versus Simple Mental Tasks
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 42 (2) , 413-414
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.42.2.413
Abstract
Effects of a 15-hr. abstention from tobacco smoking in 12 habitual smokers were examined with 3 complex cognitive tests and 2 simple perceptual tests. Abstaining from tobacco led to improved performance on the complex tests but no change on the simple ones. The results are interpreted in terms of the inverted-U relation between performance and arousal.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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