Acute alcohol intoxication impairs controlled search across the visual field.

Objective: The objective of the two experiments reported was to examine the effects of acute alcohol intoxication and of alcohol expectancies on controlled search across the visual field.

Method: After receiving an oral dose of 0.5 g/kg alcohol (Experiment 1), an oral dose of 0.

Modeling age-related memory deficits: a two-parameter solution.

Recent research and meta-analytic reviews suggest that 1 observed pattern of impaired and intact memory performance with advancing age is a deficit in measures of episodic but not semantic memory. The authors used computational modeling to explore a number of age-related parameters to account for this pattern. A 2-parameter solution based on lifelong experience successfully fit the pattern of results in 5 published studies of the word-frequency mirror effect and paired-associate recognition.