Reduced attentional capture by reward following an acute dose of alcohol.
Poppy WatsonDaniel PearsonMike E Le PelleyPublished in: Psychopharmacology (2020)
Our findings suggest that alcohol intoxication reduces the capacity to attend to information in the environment that is not directly relevant to the task at hand. In the current task, this led to a performance benefit under alcohol, but in situations that require rapid responding to salient events, the effect on behaviour would be deleterious.