A diffusion model decomposition of the effects of alcohol on perceptual decision making

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• The research investigates how alcohol affects the speed of decision-making in perceptual tasks.
• Conducted a simple perceptual discrimination task
• Administered moderate doses of alcohol to participants
• Measured changes in information processing and decision components
• Alcohol decreased the rate of information processing
• Moderate alcohol negatively affected the non-decision component
• Response caution remained largely unchanged