Acute effects of alcohol on divided and covert attention in men

Abstract

The results suggest that sensory-attentional mechanisms play a key role in altered visual perceptual performance after alcohol ingestion. Furthermore, differences between the right and left visual field in the cued target-detection task indicate that alcohol exerts an influence on right-hemispheric attentional priming.

Basal Ganglia and the Error Monitoring and Processing System: How Alcohol Modulates the Error Monitoring and Processing Capacity of the Basal Ganglia

“…For instance, in basal ganglia pathologies, error commission has been found to significantly increase, whereas speed of task decreases. On the contrary, even though error commission might increase in alcohol users, our data and those of other authors show faster performance of tasks in this group of people Schulte et al, 2001). …”

“…In comparative evolutionary studies, there are evidences that suggest intrinsic error processes not only at the organismal level, but also at the cellular and subcellular level (cellular and genetic errors) (Schulte et al, 2001;Ochoa 2006;Takeuchi et al, 2005;Cohen & Ellwein 1991). Increased error commission seen in the real world (organismal level of error commission) is the result of error processing disorder at the neuronal level .…”

Identifying experimental methods to determine the effect of pain on attention: a review of pain, caffeine, alcohol and nicotine studies

“…A study by Mills and Bisgrove (1983) found that alcohol significantly impaired participants' ability to concurrently perform sustained and selective attention tasks, both within the visual domain. In the second study, by Schulte et al (2001), participants made more errors and were slower after the administration of alcohol on divided attention performance across sensory modalities.…”

“…The different substances had differing effects on attentional shifting. Alcohol was shown to selectively reduce the cue validity effect in the left visual field (Schulte et al, 2001). The picture was mixed with nicotine.…”

Acute Moderate Alcohol Consumption Affects Cardiovascular Responses in Healthy Males with Different Tolerance Levels

“…The design of the study involved a double-blind trial with an alcohol and a placebo condition, see Schulte et al [49]. Smokers were instructed to stay abstinent from smoking during the experiment.…”