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ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2025

The impact of alcohol intoxication on extended vigilance and rest-break recovery.

Runhan Yang, Trisha N Patel, Catharine E Fairbairn, Aaron S Benjamin

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Article in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Effects of alcohol on emotion recognition: An alcohol-administration trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Runhan YangDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA. runhany2@illinois.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-9239-0673
Trisha N PatelDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
Catharine E FairbairnDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
Aaron S BenjaminDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.

Funding

Examining the Impact of Stress on the Emotionally Reinforcing Properties of Alcohol in Heavy Social Drinkers: A Multimodal Investigation Integrating Laboratory and Ambulatory MethodsR01AA025969 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Catharine Fairbairn · 2017 to 2026
$3.5M
Towards a Wearable Alcohol Biosensor: Examining the Accuracy of BAC Estimates from New-Generation Transdermal Technology using Large-Scale Human Testing and Machine Learning AlgorithmsR01AA028488 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Catharine Fairbairn · 2021 to 2026
$2.8M
National Institute of Health R01AA025969 and R01AA028488NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA025969NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA028488
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol has complex and multifarious effects on cognition. One means by which alcohol can influence a wide variety of cognitive behaviors is through its effects on attention. This study investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on sustained attention, or vigilance. We report here a high-powered study in which participants consumed either an alcoholic or a non-alcoholic beverage and then completed a spatial vigilance task, with half of the subjects in each condition receiving two rest breaks interleaved throughout the task. Alcohol impaired vigilance performance and also decreased the local recuperative benefit of rest breaks. Difference in decision processes were apparent, with intoxicated participants employing a more liberal and less optimal response criterion. These findings underscore the detrimental effects of alcohol on attention and provide novel evidence that rest is less effective following alcohol consumption.

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Alcoholic IntoxicationArousalAttentionOrientationPattern Recognition, VisualRestAdultDecision MakingEthanolFemaleHumansMaleReaction TimeYoung AdultEthanolalcoholSignal Detection Theorysustained attentionvigilance

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PMID39971885
PMCPMC12550820

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