Assessment of binge drinking in young adults using electroencephalography (EEG) has not been reported, but findings from cognitive event-related potential (ERP) studies are suggestive. Maurage et al. [6] employed an auditory stimulus valence detection paradigm in which first-year undergraduates were instructed to discriminate between negative and positive auditory stimuli (e.g., the semantically neutral word “paper” was read by a male or female voice with angry or happy prosody). ERPs were collected at the beginning and end of the academic year. Peak latency of P1, N2, and P3b components were more delayed in latency as binge drinking increased over the year. However, the binge-drinking cutoff employed was quite high at 200 grams pure ethanol/week (≈24 ounces of hard alcohol). The typical young adult binge drinker does not consume alcohol at regular weekly intervals, and this irregularity of ethanol consumption is a major characteristic of the binge consumption and withdrawal pattern [2]. Ehlers et al. [7] utilized a facial discrimination task in which digital photographs of happy, neutral, and sad faces were presented, with participants instructed to indicate with a button press
