Abstract
30 unselected Ss, outpatients in a clinic for alcoholics, served in a visual-recognition experiment. Positive and negative photographs of common non-motivating objects were shown under time-controlled conditions of exposure. Alcoholics as normals showed that negatives are more difficult to recognize (required a longer exposure to produce recognition) than positives and that this difference increases as a function of difficulty or object complexity. The data also suggest, however, that alcoholics are absolutely and relatively less able to process conflicting visual information than normals. The latter finding led to the hypothesis that alcohol may serve to relieve sensory discordance for the alcoholic.
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