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Not so smart? “Smart” drugs increase the level but decrease the quality of cognitive effort

The efficacy of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers in everyday complex tasks remains to be established. Using the knapsack optimization problem as a stylized representation of difficulty in tasks encountered in daily life, we discover that methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, and modafinil cause knap...

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Autores principales: Bowman, Elizabeth, Coghill, David, Murawski, Carsten, Bossaerts, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37315143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add4165