tendency to correlate with duration of heavy drinking, indicating that long-term heavy alcohol intake impacted speed of word-encoding. Other investigators used extensive batteries of neuropsychological tests (including the Wechsler Memory Scale, Dementia Rating Scale, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figures Test, and a word/face recognition test) and found that alcoholics had significantly impaired verbal, nonverbal, and spatial short-term memory (Sullivan et al., 2000b; Sullivan et al., 2002b).
