Abstract
D-AMPHETAMINE produces deficits on many tasks where it is appropriate to withhold responding1–5. Decreased discriminative sensitivity to sensory clues or an inability to control responses (or both of these), could underlie this effect.
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ROBBINS, T., IVERSEN, S. Amphetamine-induced Disruption of Temporal Discrimination by Response Disinhibition. Nature New Biology 245, 191–192 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio245191a0
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