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Forty male chronic alcoholics, 40–50 years old, learned a list of 12 two-syllable common nouns under alcohol and no-alcohol conditions. Forty-eight h later, they relearned the same or different alcohol conditions in a 2 by 2 factorial design. Alcohol significantly retarded original learning. A significant interaction of alcohol condition during original learning with alcohol condition during relearning provided some support for a “dissociation” hypothesis of the effects of alcohol on long-term memory. These results replicated the results of an earlier study with non-alcoholic Ss.
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1. This research was partially supported by a grant from the Scientific Advisory Council, Licensed Beverage Industries, and by the Alcoholism Foundation of British Columbia, where the senior author is research consultant.
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Storm, T., Caird, W.K. The effects of alcohol on serial verbal learning in chronic alcoholics. Psychon Sci 9, 43–44 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330750
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