Alcohol Hangover Differentially Modulates the Processing of Relevant and Irrelevant Information.

ABSTRACT: Elevated distractibility is one of the major contributors to alcohol hangover-induced behavioral deficits. Yet, the basic mechanisms driving increased distractibility during hangovers are still not very well understood. Aside from impairments in attention and psychomotor functions, changes in stimulus-response bindings may also increase responding to distracting information, as suggested by the theory of event coding (TEC). Yet, this has never been investigated in the context of alcohol hangover. Therefore, we investigated whether alcohol hangover has different effects on target-response bindings and distractor-response bindings using a task that allows to differentiate these two phenomena. A total of n = 35 healthy males aged 19 to 28 were tested once sober and once hungover after being i

SUBMITTER: Opitz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141188 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature