Alcohol effects on performance monitoring and adjustment: affect modulation and impairment of evaluative cognitive control.
- Authors
- Bartholow, Bruce D; Henry, Erika A; Lust, Sarah A; Saults, J Scott; Wood, Phillip K
- Year
- 2012
- Journal
- Journal of abnormal psychology
- PMID
- 21604824
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0023664
- PMCID
- PMC4254813
Alcohol is known to impair self-regulatory control of behavior, though mechanisms for this effect remain unclear. Here, we tested the hypothesis that alcohol's reduction of negative affect (NA) is a key mechanism for such impairment. This hypothesis was tested by measuring the amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN), a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP) posited to reflect the extent to which behavioral control failures are experienced as distressing, while participants completed a laboratory task requiring self-regulatory control. Alcohol reduced both the ERN and error positivity (Pe) components of the ERP following errors and impaired typical posterror behavioral adjustment. Structural equation modeling indicated that effects of alcohol on both the ERN and posterror adjustment were significantly mediated by reductions in NA. Effects of alcohol on Pe amplitude were unrelated to posterror adjustment, however. These findings indicate a role for affect modulation in understanding alcohol's effects on self-regulatory impairment and more generally support theories linking the ERN with a distress-related response to control failures.
Schematic of the Weapon Identification Task (Payne, 2001). Adapted from Amodio et al. (2004). Copyright 2004 by the Association for Psychological Science. Adapted with permission.
Timeline of events during experimental sessions.
Reaction times (panel A) and accuracy rates (panel B) to categorize targets as a function of prime race, target type, and beverage group.
Response-locked ERP waveforms measured at electrode FCz on error trials (top panel) and on correct trials (bottom panel), as a function of beverage group. ‘R’ (time zero) indicates response onset. The ERN is visible as the prominent negativity peaking approximately 80 ms post-response on error trials; the Pe is the positivity following the ERN, peaking approximately 160 ms postresponse on error trials.
The interference effect in RT after errors and after correct responses, as a function of beverage group. Vertical bars represent ± 1 SE.
Scatterplots depicting associations between ERN amplitude and the PDP control estimate, as a function of beverage group. * p < .05.
Response accuracy judgments for correct and incorrect response trials as a function of beverage group. Analyses were carried out using the arcsine of the square root of accuracy rates (proportions), which reduces skew in the distribution and makes the data more suitable for analysis of variance. However, for ease of interpretation the untransformed data are presented here. Vertical bars represent ± 1 SE.
Structural equation model depicting associations among study variables. Significant associations are depicted with solid lines. Paths associated with significant indirect effects are shown in bold. Nonsignificant associations are depicted with dashed lines. Effects for the Alcohol and Control variables represent effects relative to the placebo group. NA change and PA change = change from baseline to the first postdrinking assessment in negative affect and positive affect, respectively. ERN and Pe = average amplitude of those components at the electrode site where they were largest (FCz and Cz, respectively). Overt error recognition represents the proportion of incorrect responses judged as errors. Posterror adjust. = average RT interference effect on trials that followed errors. Error terms of the NA change and PA change variables, as well as the ERN and Pe variables, were correlated in the model (neither was significant), but those paths were not depicted in the figure in order to reduce clutter.
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