%0 Journal Article
%T The relationship between neural processing efficiency during inter-hemispheric transfer, alcohol consumption, and sleep quality in college students: an ERP study.
%A Britton K
%A Price KM
%A Caballero A
%A Ahmed A
%A Bolin J
%A Simon-Dack SL
%J J Am Coll Health
%V 0
%N 0
%D 2024 Jun 25
%M 38917359
%F 2.395
%R 10.1080/07448481.2024.2369900
%X Objective: To examine relationships between sleep, alcohol consumption, and a physiological and behavioral marker of cognitive function in college students. College students are in a high risk category for high alcohol consumption and poor sleep quality, two unhealthful behaviors which can lead to poor mental health outcomes and compromised academic performance. Participants: Thirty college students from a large midwestern institution. Methods: Participants performed an interhemispheric transfer task while their electroencephalography was recorded for later examination of event-related potentials. They were also administered the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, and the Alcohol Timeline Follow-Back. Results: Results demonstrate that increased alcohol consumption is associated with poor right-to-left interhemispheric transfer performance, and increased frontal P1 ERP amplitudes to neuro-ipsilateral targets requiring an interhemispheric-transfer. Conclusions: These findings assist in furthering explorations into the impacts of unhealthy behaviors in college students and underlying markers of simple cognitive and behavioral function.