Citation

Smith PJ, Langolf GD. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1980; 24(1): 372-376.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1980, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/107118138002400197

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study evaluated the utility of a binary classification task in assessing the neurotoxic effects of elemental mercury. Twenty-six mercury cell chlor-alkali workers were tested in order to study the dose-response relationship between mercury exposure and the stage-specific measures provided by this reaction-time paradigm. Two of the stages studied, short-term memory scanning and binary decision, were found to be adversely affected by chronic exposure to mercury.

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