The duration of nicotine-induced attentional enhancement in the five-choice serial reaction time task: Lack of long-lasting cognitive improvement

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 742-754

  Stolerman, Ian P ^a   Naylor, Christopher G ^a   Mesdaghinia, Azam ^a   Morris, Hannah V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 choice task; Attention; Chronic effects; Cognition; Nicotine; Rat; Time course

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE TARTRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NICOTINE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73949101723     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328333b290     Document Type: Article

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