Effect of Marihuana upon Peripheral Vision as a Function of the Information Processing Demands in Central Vision

Detection of peripheral light stimuli was examined with 12 Ss under 4 treatment levels of smoked marihuana. Marihuana severely impaired detection performance and the decrement was linearly related to dose. Information-processing demands from the central fixation light did not affect the degree of impairment.

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