Trial reportPsychopharmacology2012
Alcohol affects the emotional modulation of cognitive control: an event-related brain potential study.
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- The acute effects of MDMA and ethanol administration on electrophysiological correlates of performance monitoring in healthy volunteers.Psychopharmacology · 2014Trial
- The relationship between alcohol consumption, social distancing, and crime rates: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- The Effect of Violent Virtual Avatar Experience on Players' Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions and Its Cognitive Neural Mechanisms.Experimental psychology · 2025Article
- Influence of Betrayal on Emotional Modulation of Executive Control: Evidence From ERPs.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- The cognitive neural mechanism of response inhibition and error processing to fearful expressions in adolescents with high reactive aggression.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Reactive Aggression Affects Response Inhibition to Angry Expressions in Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study Using the Emotional Go/No-Go Paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Problematic alcohol use and acute intoxication predict anger-related attentional biases: A test of the alcohol myopia theory.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Article
- Enhanced Nogo-P3 amplitudes of mothers compared with non-mother women during an emotional Go/Nogo task.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2018Article
- Altered oscillatory brain dynamics of emotional processing in young binge drinkers.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Acute alcohol effects on facial expressions of emotions in social drinkers: a systematic review.Psychology research and behavior management · 2017Review
- Cognitive control in alcohol use disorder: deficits and clinical relevance.Reviews in the neurosciences · 2014Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe present study aimed to determine whether alcohol affects the emotional modulation of cognitive control and its underlying neural mechanisms, which is pivotal to an understanding of the socially maladaptive behaviors frequently seen in alcohol-intoxicated individuals.
methodEvent-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in male participants receiving either a moderate dose of alcohol (0.65 g/kg alcohol; n = 32) or a non-alcoholic placebo beverage (n = 32) while performing an emotional Go/No-Go task that required response execution (Go trials) to pictures of a "target" emotional facial expression (angry, happy, neutral) and response inhibition (No-Go trials) to a different "non-target" expression.
resultsOverall, N200 and P300 amplitudes were more enhanced during No-Go than Go trials. Interestingly, alcohol-intoxicated individuals displayed larger No-Go N200 amplitudes across all emotional conditions than controls, accompanied by decreased task performance (i.e., more errors), particularly in response to angry faces. P300 amplitude in the alcohol group was significantly reduced for both Go and No-Go trials, but only following angry and happy emotional expressions.
conclusionsThese results suggest that alcohol-intoxicated individuals need to effortfully activate more cognitive resources during the early inhibition process in order to regulate a response than controls. Moreover, alcohol affected the emotional modulation of both response inhibition and execution in the later stages of cognitive control. Alcohol dampened emotional responsiveness, which may restrict the availability of attentional resources for cognitive control. Yet, these findings may underlie the lack of control in alcohol-intoxicated individuals when faced with emotionally or socially challenging situations.
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