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 that this inhibition training – in which participants learn to inhibit their responding but only when alcohol-related pictures are presented on the computer screen – can have beneficial effects on drinking behavior. However, unlike in the studies reported by Houben et al. (100, 101), these beneficial effects of training were not evident at the 1-week follow-up. The immediate effects of cue-specific inhibition training on ad libitum alcohol consumption in the laboratory were replicated by Bowley et al. (107), who used a modified Go/No-Go task similar to that used by Houben et al. (100, 101). Those authors found that the reduction in alcohol consumption was comparable to that seen in an active control group that received a brief (5 min) alcohol intervention. However, this study also failed to demonstrate beneficial effects of the training at 1-week follow-up.
