The time course effects of smoking on stimulus evaluation and response selection

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 310-318

  Houlihan, Michael E ^a,b   Pritchard, Walter S ^b,c   Robinson, John H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c R J REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Nicotine; P300; Response selection; RT; Smoking

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SMOKING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030460032     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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