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A comparison of the attentional and consolidation hypotheses for the facilitation of memory by nicotine

Warburton, D. M., Rusted, J. M., Fowler, J.·1992·Psychopharmacology
DOI 10.1007/bf02247418
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Studies examining facilitation of human memory by the administration of nicotine have given equivocal results and it has been argued that the positive findings on memory may have resulted indirectly from an effect on attention, rather than from a direct effect on memory storage. This study compared the "attentional" and the "mnemonic" hypotheses directly, by using both immediate and delayed recall tasks in a verbal free recall study, in which volunteers smoked on a fixed regime during presentation of a 32 word list (namely, one puff after each of eight 4-word blocks). The serial position curve for immediate recall demonstrated a significant improvement on the later blocks of the list (an attentional effect) when volunteers smoked a nicotine-containing cigarette. However, improved performance was found for items at the beginning of the list on the delayed recall measure and this improvement was significant on the first block of 4 words. Since nicotine input had been taken after presentation of this information, the results demonstrate post-learning facilitation of memory by nicotine.

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  • Some individuals report smoking to improve attention, and smoking's ability to improve attentional function in individuals with schizophrenia likely contributes to their high rates of smoking.

    “Some individuals report that they smoke to improve attention (Rusted and Warburton 1992;Warburton et al. 1992), and the ability of smoking to improve attentional function in individuals with schizophrenia (George et al. 2002) is likely to contribute to their extremely high rates of smoking.”

    From Mechanisms of Nicotine Addiction (2021) · cites this paper as Warburton et al. 1992

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Authors
Warburton, D. M., Rusted, J. M., & Fowler, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Reading (GB)
  • University of Sussex (GB)
ORCID
Rusted, J. M.
Venue
Psychopharmacology
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
1992-09
Volume
108
Issue
4
Pages
443-447
ISSN
  • 0033-3158 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-2072
DOI
10.1007/bf02247418
OpenAlex
W2032848805
Cited by
72
References
23
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
2.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychopharmacology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
nicotine, memory enhancement, free recall, serial position effect, delayed recall, immediate recall, cigarette smoking, verbal memory
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Humans, Memory, Nicotine, Mental Recall, Smoking

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