Effects of addiction-associated and affective stimuli on the attentional blink in a sample of abstinent opiate dependent patients

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-70

  Liu, Ning ^a,b,c   Li, Bo ^a,b   Sun, Ninglei ^a,b,c   Ma, Yuanye ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Addiction; Attentional blink; Heroin; Rapid serial visual presentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMOTION; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOOD DISORDER; OPIATE ADDICTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES;

EID: 37749005492     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881107077804     Document Type: Article

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