Retrograde enhancement of human memory with alcohol
Abstract
In two experiments with normal male subjects, the ingestion of alcohol (1 ml/kg) immediately after learning significantly improved subsequent remembering. By comparison, marijuana (15 mg) had no significant post-acquisition effect. Facilitation of visual and verbal memory with alcohol under these conditions has implications for the interference and consolidation views of memory.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Benzodiazepines administered after encoding can enhance memory in waking subjects, possibly by preventing encoding of new interfering information.
“Interestingly, there is rather consistent evidence that benzodiazepines administered after the encoding of information can enhance memory for this information in waking subjects, possibly by preventing the encoding of new interfering information after learning (247, 888, 1313, 1332).”
From About Sleep's Role in Memory (2013) · cites this paper as [888]
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Rasch, B., & Born, J. (2013) · Physiological Reviews · doi:10.1152/physrev.00032.2012 · Cited by 2,783 · see citing works
The Psychology and Neuroscience of Forgetting
Wixted, J. T. (2004) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.141555 · Cited by 999 · see citing works
Addictive drugs as reinforcers: multiple partial actions on memory systems
WHITE, N. M. (1996) · Addiction · doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1996.tb03586.x · Cited by 439 · see citing works
- Authors
- Parker, E. S., Birnbaum, I. M., Weingartner, H., Hartley, J. T., Stillman, R. C., & Wyatt, R. J.
- Affiliations
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Venue
- Psychopharmacology
- Published
- 1980-07
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 219-222
- ISSN
- 0033-3158 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-2072
- OpenAlex
- W2077058274
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Psychopharmacology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- alcohol, memory enhancement, cannabis, visual memory, verbal memory, memory consolidation, memory interference
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Ethanol, Cannabis, Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Learning, Male, Memory, Placebos, Dronabinol
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
