Event-related potentials and visual spatial attention: Influence of a cholinergic drug

T. F. Münte; H. J. Heinze; M. B. Scholz; S. M. Barlusch; D. E. Dietrich

doi:10.1159/000118559

Event-related potentials and visual spatial attention: Influence of a cholinergic drug

T. F. Münte^*, H. J. Heinze, M. B. Scholz, S. M. Barlusch, D. E. Dietrich

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Hannover Medical School

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Abstract

The effects of two dosages (200 mg, 600 mg, placebo) of a cholinergic nootropic (WEB 1881 FU) were investigated in a visual spatial attention task. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used as a physiological measure of attention as they have previously been shown to be sensitive to allocation of attention to points in space. The typical enhancement of several peaks of the visual ERP due to attention was found in the present experiment. No systematic effect of the medication was revealed, suggesting that the effects of WEB 1881 FU do not extend to early perceptual processes.

Original language	English
Journal	Neuropsychobiology
Volume	21
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	94-99
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0302-282X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000118559
Publication status	Published - 01.01.1989

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