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Article: Alcohol Affects Processing of Ignored Stimuli in a Negative Priming Paradigm(*).(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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LABORATORY STUDIES of social drinkers have repeatedly demonstrated that moderate doses of alcohol can impair the performance of tasks that require visual attention (for reviews, see Holloway, 1995; Koelega, 1995; Mitchell, 1985). In particular, it is commonly reported that alcohol disrupts performance on divided attention tasks that require simultaneously attending to two or more activities as well as vigilance tasks that require prolonged attention to changing stimuli (e.g., Burns and Moskowitz, 1980; Fillmore et al., 1998; Michel and Battig, 1989). The impairing effects on these tasks have been observed at low blood alcohol concentrations (BACs), (below 80 mg/dl), ...