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Delayed auditory feedback during smoking cessation

A Friedman1, J P Stanton, M Gnjidic

  • 1National Institute on Drug Abuse, Addiction Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
|May 30, 1998
PubMed
Summary

Tobacco cessation does not impact linguistic processing, as measured by delayed auditory feedback (DAF). Reading speed remained unaffected by smoking status, showing preserved language skills during nicotine withdrawal.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Delayed auditory feedback (DAF) is known to impair speech and reading rates.
  • Smoking cessation in heavy smokers is associated with cognitive deficits and concentration difficulties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether tobacco cessation disrupts linguistic processing using the DAF paradigm.
  • To assess the effects of smoking cessation on reading speed under DAF conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Fourteen heavy smokers participated in a study involving 3 days of ad libitum smoking and 3 days of no smoking.
  • Participants read a word list and a story under conditions with and without delayed auditory feedback (220 msec).

Main Results:

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  • Delayed auditory feedback significantly reduced reading speed for both the story and word list.
  • Tobacco cessation did not significantly affect reading speed, nor did it interact with the effects of DAF.

Conclusions:

  • Linguistic processing, as modeled by DAF, is preserved despite tobacco withdrawal.
  • DAF may be a valuable tool for studying other drug classes and withdrawal states.