Behavioral Flexibility in Alcohol-Drinking Monkeys: The Morning After.
Tatiana A ShnitkoSteven W GonzalesNatali NewmanKathleen A GrantPublished in: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (2020)
Rhesus monkeys consuming 1.5 g/kg alcohol daily perform equally as could as control monkeys in retention of a well-learned cognitive task. However, this pattern of daily alcohol intake robustly decreased the ability to flexibly adjust behavior when confronted with novel changes to perceptual stimuli.