ISSN:
1433-8491
Keywords:
Alcoholism
;
Dichotic listening
;
Neutropsychology
;
Cognitive psychology
;
Semantic network
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract To test whether alcoholics develop an information processing bias towards disease-related stimuli, 30 alcoholic inpatients and 30 controls were administered a dichotic listening task. Three different stimulus types were presented to the right (ignored) channel: neutral words, rare neutral words and alcohol-related words. The hypothesized information processing bias should cause patients to make disproportionally more shadowing errors in the third condition. An ANOVA revealed a significant condition effect (P〈0.001), a tendency towards a group effect (P=0.09) and a significant interaction (P〈0.01) in the expected direction. There was a marked increase of errors in alcoholics when disease-related stimuli were presented compared to the neutral conditions and to the controls.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02190402
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