Beyond differentiating effects of alcohol on post-correct versus post-error cognitive control processes, the current findings have important implications for understanding potential differences in alcohol’s effects on separable components of control outlined in recent models. In particular, Braver’s (2012; Braver, Paxton, Locke, & Barch, 2009) Dual Mechanisms of Control (DMC) model posits a dual-process framework for understanding control in which goal-directed performance is governed by the interplay of proactive control (i.e., the sustained maintenance of goal information over time that serves to bias information processing in favor of task-relevant goals) and reactive control (i.e., just-in-time conflict resolution and performance adjustment that arises from the presence of conflict).
