The present study was designed to integrate and expand on these findings in several ways. First, in order to investigate whether the effects of alcohol were specific to lexical-semantic processing, we employed a lexical decision task in which participants were asked to detect visually presented real words among non-words. Second, the lexical decision task was embedded in a double-duty paradigm that included an additional requirement to detect all real words that also referred to animals. By manipulating conflicting demands in the context of lexical-semantic retrieval, this task modification allowed us to examine the effects of acute intoxication on both language and executive functions. Third, the whole-head magnetoencephalography (MEG) signal was analyzed with a Time–Frequency (TF) method, providing an insight into the oscillatory dynamics of the distributed network subserving visual word processing. In an effort to examine where the conflict- and beverage-specific brain oscillatory changes are occurring and to gain insight into the temporal sequence (“when”) of the involved neural components, we have employed a multimodal neuroimaging methodology. The anatomically constrained MEG (aMEG) analysis stream combines distributed source modeling of the
