Cognitive and Electrophysiologic Parameters during Ascending and Descending Limbs of the Blood Alcohol Curve
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 7 (1) , 76-82
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1983.tb05415.x
Abstract
The effects of acute alcohol ingestion and prior success or failure upon cognitive performance of 40 healthy, non-alcoholic subjects were examined during both the ascending and descending limbs of the blood alcohol curve. Measures of physiological arousal were made with frontal/laryngeal electromyographic and skin conductance response level parameters. Major findings were: cognitive performance was impaired by alcohol ingestion; autonomic arousal was significantly greater after alcohol than after placebo; number and amplitude of skin response were greater on the ascending than on the descending limb; the anticipated effects of failure on cognitive performance were ameliorated by alcohol; and differential effects of alcohol on the psychophysiological parameters were demonstrated.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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