Smoking and performance — a puff-by-puff analysis
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 96 (4) , 563-565
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02180043
Abstract
A new version of the Rapid Visual Information Processing (RVIP) task has been developed in this laboratory to examine the effects of each puff from a cigarette upon continuous performance. Two cigarettes were tested and compared with a not-smoking and a sham-smoking control. The results show improvements resulting from just two puffs both in terms of correct detections and reaction times. Both measures of performance were maintained at a higher level during and after smoking, compared with not-smoking and sham-smoking.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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