TY - JOUR PY - 1997// TI - The effects of alcohol on eye movements during reading JO - Alcohol and alcoholism A1 - Watten, R. G. A1 - Lie, I. SP - 275 EP - 280 VL - 32 IS - 3 N2 - In an experimental double-blind placebo study of 18 subjects (mean age 26.2 years), we investigated the effect of three blood alcohol concentrations (0.0%, 0.05% and 0.1%) on five visuomotor reading parameters: (1) number of eye fixations per 100 words read; (2) the number of words read per minute; (3) the number of regressions per 100 words read; (4) the saccadic length; (5) the duration of eye fixations. The number of fixations and the duration of eye fixations increased significantly as a function of increased breath alcohol concentration. There were no significant changes in the other visuomotor reading parameters.

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