Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on visuospatial attention

Human and Experimental Toxicology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-319

  Do Canto Pereira, Luiz Henrique M ^a,b   David, Isabel De P A ^b   Machado Pinheiro, Walter ^c   Ranvaud, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute alcohol intoxication; Divided attention; Geostatistics; Simple reaction times; Spatial distribution; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISSOCIATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248335416     PISSN: 09603271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0960327106070490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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