Novice drivers' performance after different alcohol dosages and placebo in the divided-attention steering simulator (DASS)

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-133

  Verster, Joris C ^a   Wester, Anne E ^a   Goorden, Maartje ^a   Van Wieringen, Jan Peter ^a   Olivier, Berend ^a   Volkerts, Edmund R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Cognitive; DASS; Driving; Novice drivers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRIVING ABILITY; DRUNKENNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349187337     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1443-x     Document Type: Article

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