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VISION RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 13, Pages 1821-1832Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.03.008
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alcohol; processing efficiency; transmission efficiency; interhemispheric transfer time; flash-lag effect; backward masking
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While the alcohol literature is extensive, relatively little addresses the relationship between physiological effects and behavioural changes. Using the visual system as a model, we examined alcohol's influence on neural temporal processing as a potential means for alcohol's effects. We did this by using tasks that provided a measure of processing speed: Poffenberger paradigm, flash-lag, and backward masking. After moderate alcohol, participants showed longer interhemispheric transmission times, larger flash-lags, and prolonged masking. Our data are consistent with the view that alcohol slows neural processing, and provide support for a reduction in processing efficiency underlying alcohol-induced changes in temporal visual processing. Crown copyright (c) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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