Also, the current study should be considered an initial step toward future work in which alcohol's effects on cognitive control are more directly linked to clinically-relevant outcomes, such as alcohol use disorder. The discovery that alcohol primarily impairs control-related processes once control has failed has considerable theoretical implications for understanding phenomena such as loss of control drinking (see Field, Wiers, Christiansen, Fillmore, & Verster 2010). Future studies should investigate whether individual differences in cognitive abilities or risk factors for alcohol use disorder moderate acute effects of alcohol on recovery from control failures, and whether such moderators determine potential links between laboratory effects and real-world drinking outcomes. Finally, the use of a single alcohol dose precludes examination of potentially important dose-response effects. Other work (Bartholow et al., 2003) has shown that alcohol’s effects on cognitive outcomes can vary according to dose, and it would be of interest to determine if the same is true for the post-error control processes examined here. The amount of time necessary to recover from control failures may well vary by the amount of alcohol consumed. Additionally,
