Alcohol slows interhemispheric transmission, increases the flash-lag effect, and prolongs masking: Evidence for a slowing of neural processing and transmission

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1821-1832

  Khan, Sarah A ^a   Timney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Backward masking; Flash lag effect; Interhemispheric transfer time; Processing efficiency; Transmission efficiency

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN; ETHANOL; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248575956     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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