The impact of emotional face stimuli on working memory performance among men and women with alcohol use disorder.

CONCLUSIONS: These data provide partial support for initial hypotheses, with the AUD group demonstrating poorer working memory performance conditioned on the inability to ignore irrelevant emotional face stimuli. The absence of group differences when scenes were to be ignored (faces remembered) suggests the AUD-associated inability to ignore irrelevance is influenced by specific stimulus qualities. PMID: 33218841 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33218841?dopt=Abstract

Source: Addictive Behaviors - November 9, 2020 Category: Addiction Authors: Lewis B, Price JL, Garcia CC, Ebner NC, Nixon SJ Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research