Effect of Marihuana on the Psychological Refractory Period

1 June 1974

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills

Vol. 38 (3) , 959-962
https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1974.38.3.959

Abstract

Reaction times to an auditory stimulus (RT₁) and a subsequent visual stimulus (RT₂) were measured for 12 Ss under three levels of smoked marihuana. Marihuana impaired responses; effect was larger on RT₂ than on RT₁. However, delays of RT₂ are longer than would be predicted in terms of the psychological refractory period.

Keywords

REFRACTORY
AUDITORY
PSYCHOLOGICAL
DELAYS
STIMULUS
REACTION TIMES
SMOKED
MARIHUANA
LONGER

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Effect of Alcohol on the Psychological Refractory Period
Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1971