Goodwin et al. (1969)

Alcohol and Recall: State-Dependent Effects in Man

Science, 163(3873), 1358-1360

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Abstract

Male volunteers performed four memory tasks either while sober or under effects of alcohol. Twenty-four hours later they were tested under the same or different conditions. In tasks measuring recall and interference, learning transfer was better when the subject was intoxicated during both sessions than when he was intoxicated only during the learning session. In a task measuring recognition, transfer was not significantly affected by changing state. Thus, alcohol appears to produce "dissociated" or state-dependent effects in man, but not all forms of memory are equally sensitive to the phenomenon.

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Goodwin, D. W., Powell, B., Bremer, D., Hoine, H., & Stern, J. (1969). Alcohol and Recall: State-Dependent Effects in Man. Science, 163(3873), 1358-1360. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163.3873.1358

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Context-Dependent Retrieval Memory Processes

Definition

State-dependent memory is the internal-state version: men who learned material while intoxicated recalled it better 24 hours later when intoxicated again than when sober, while recognition was not significantly affected by the change of state