Jones and Field (106) used a similar training procedure, this time embedded in a Stop Signal task, in an attempt to extend the findings from the studies reported by Houben et al. (100, 101) and to try to identify an inhibition training procedure that may exert its beneficial effects by bolstering inhibitory control (rather than by changing affective associations with alcohol). Participants completed a Stop Signal task in which alcohol-related and neutral pictures were shown; participants were required to categorize the pictures as quickly as possible but to inhibit their responding whenever they heard a tone. In one group of participants, the majority of stop signal tones occurred during presentation of alcohol pictures, whereas for another group of participants the tone was paired with neutral pictures instead. Results indicated that the group that inhibited mainly to alcohol cues showed a progressive decrease in inhibition errors and slowing of reaction times to alcohol cues, over the course of multiple blocks of the task. Importantly, immediately after the training this group consumed less beer than participants in the control group, which suggests
