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Montgomery, C, Ashmore, KV and Jansari, A (2011) The effects of a modest dose of alcohol on executive functioning and prospective memory. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 26 (3). pp. 208-215. ISSN 0885-6222
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Abstract
Rationale
Acute alcohol intoxication selectively impairs executive functioning and prospective memory (PM). Much previous researches in this area have used laboratory-based tasks that may not mimic functions that individuals with dysexecutive syndrome have problems with in their everyday life. The present study aimed to assess the effects of a modest dose of alcohol on executive functioning and PM using a virtual reality task and investigate the role of executive planning in PM performance.
Methods
Forty healthy participants were administered 0.4 g/kg alcohol or matched placebo in a double-blind design. Executive function and PM were assessed using the Jansari–Agnew–Akesson–Murphy (JAAM) task, requiring participants to play the role of an office worker.
Results
Alcohol intoxication selectively impaired executive function and PM. The participants in the alcohol condition performed worse on the planning, prioritisation, creativity and adaptability executive subscales and also on the time-based and event-based PM tasks. However, alcohol did not impair the selection executive function task or the action-based PM task.
Conclusions
The results provide further support for the effects of alcohol on executive functioning and PM. In addition, the results suggest that such deficits may be present at relatively modest doses of alcohol and in the absence of a subjective feeling of intoxication
Keywords: alcohol; executive functioning; prospective memory; virtual reality; memory
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| Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Montgomery, C., Ashmore, K. V. and Jansari, A. (2011), The effects of a modest dose of alcohol on executive functioning and prospective memory. Hum. Psychopharmacol. Clin. Exp., 26: 208–215, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hup.1194. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1115 Pharmacology And Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Science |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
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| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2015 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 14:23 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1002/hup.1194 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1088 |
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