ArticleScientific reports2014
Small effects of smoking on visual spatiotemporal processing.
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- Nicotine gum enhances visual processing in healthy nonsmokers.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Trial
- Effects of Nicotine Gum Administration on Vision (ENIGMA-Vis): Study Protocol of a Double-Blind, Randomized, and Controlled Clinical Trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Associations between genetic variations and global motion perception.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Tobacco Use Decreases Visual Sensitivity in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Effects of smoking and smoking abstinence on spatial vision in chronic heavy smokers.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Comparison of color discrimination in chronic heavy smokers and healthy subjects.F1000Research · 2017Article
- Spatial and temporal aspects of visual backward masking in children and young adolescents.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2016Article
- Ageing and visual spatiotemporal processing.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
- Does chronic nicotine consumption influence visual backward masking in schizophrenia and schizotypy?Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2015Article
- Meeting overview: Sensory perception and schizophrenia, Lausanne, Switzerland June 31-July 1, 2014.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2015Review
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Abstract
Nicotine is an important stimulant that is involved in modulating many neuronal processes, including those related to vision. Nicotine is also thought to play a key role in schizophrenia: A genetic variation of the cholinergic nicotine receptor gene, alpha-7 subunit (CHRNA7) has been shown to be associated with stronger backward masking deficits in schizophrenic patients. In this study, we tested visual backward masking in healthy smokers and non-smokers to further understand the effects of nicotine on spatiotemporal vision. In the first study, we tested 48 participants, a group of non-smokers (n = 12) and three groups of regular smokers that were either nicotine deprived (n = 12), non-deprived (n = 12) or deprived but were allowed to smoke a cigarette directly before the start of the experiment (n = 12). Performance was similar across groups, except for some small negative effects in nicotine-deprived participants. In the second study, we compared backward masking performance between regular smokers and non-smokers for older (n = 37, 13 smokers) and younger (n = 67, 21 smokers) adults. Older adults performed generally worse than younger adults but there were no significant differences in performance between smokers and non-smokers. Taken together, these findings indicate that nicotine has no long-term negative effects on visual spatiotemporal processing as determined by visual backward masking.
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