Auditory and Visual Sustained Attention in Adolescents Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol

Abstract

These results suggest that there may be specific patterns to the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive performance that can be identified during adolescence. In this study of sustained attention, processing in the visual modality was more affected than that in the auditory modality. Deficits in visual processing seemed to result from insensitivity to target stimuli.