Volume 46, Issue 1, July 2025, Pages 38–45
Koffi Serge Pacôme Kouadio1, Emmanuel Diboh2, Seydou Silue3, and Antoine Némé TAKO4
1 Biology and Health Laboratory, Biosciences Training and Research Unit (UFR), Félix Houphouët Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Animal Physiology Unit, Environment Training and Research Unit (UFR), Jean Lorougnon Guédé University, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Biology and Health Laboratory, Biosciences Training and Research Unit (UFR), Félix Houphouët Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Laboratoire de Neurosciences. Université Félix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, UFR Biosciences, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22 , Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
Copyright © 2025 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with health, social and school problems. As for moderate drinking, opinions differ depending on authors. Taking account of the way young people drink alcohol and their particular sensibilities to alcoholism at neuroanatomical level, we are led to wonder about the impact of moderate alcohol consumption on their cognitive abilities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of moderate alcohol consumption on memory capacity, and more specifically on explicit learning capacity using the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) that is to say a memory test for young people. To do this, 56 young people were selected and divided into four groups including one control group (with a blood alcohol content of 0.0 g/l) and three experimental groups (with blood alcohol contents of 0.2, 0.5 and 0.8 g/l). Each group comprised two sub-groups (occasional and regular drinkers). Participants were subjected to a neuropsychological test, namely learning words from list A of the CVLT. The results of this study showed that alcohol consumption, even in moderate doses, significantly perturb immediate memory, thereby significantly reducing the ability to learn words for occasional drinkers (OD), especially when the blood alcohol content is 0.8 g/l. It also appears that regular drinkers (RD) are better able to tolerate the acute effects of alcohol, when blood alcohol contents are above 0.5 g/l. Schoolchildren are therefore advised to avoid drinking even at moderate dose in the school environment.
Author Keywords: CVLT, moderate drinking, consumers, learning, young people.
Koffi Serge Pacôme Kouadio1, Emmanuel Diboh2, Seydou Silue3, and Antoine Némé TAKO4
1 Biology and Health Laboratory, Biosciences Training and Research Unit (UFR), Félix Houphouët Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Animal Physiology Unit, Environment Training and Research Unit (UFR), Jean Lorougnon Guédé University, Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
3 Biology and Health Laboratory, Biosciences Training and Research Unit (UFR), Félix Houphouët Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Laboratoire de Neurosciences. Université Félix HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY, UFR Biosciences, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22 , Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: English
Copyright © 2025 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with health, social and school problems. As for moderate drinking, opinions differ depending on authors. Taking account of the way young people drink alcohol and their particular sensibilities to alcoholism at neuroanatomical level, we are led to wonder about the impact of moderate alcohol consumption on their cognitive abilities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of moderate alcohol consumption on memory capacity, and more specifically on explicit learning capacity using the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) that is to say a memory test for young people. To do this, 56 young people were selected and divided into four groups including one control group (with a blood alcohol content of 0.0 g/l) and three experimental groups (with blood alcohol contents of 0.2, 0.5 and 0.8 g/l). Each group comprised two sub-groups (occasional and regular drinkers). Participants were subjected to a neuropsychological test, namely learning words from list A of the CVLT. The results of this study showed that alcohol consumption, even in moderate doses, significantly perturb immediate memory, thereby significantly reducing the ability to learn words for occasional drinkers (OD), especially when the blood alcohol content is 0.8 g/l. It also appears that regular drinkers (RD) are better able to tolerate the acute effects of alcohol, when blood alcohol contents are above 0.5 g/l. Schoolchildren are therefore advised to avoid drinking even at moderate dose in the school environment.
Author Keywords: CVLT, moderate drinking, consumers, learning, young people.
How to Cite this Article
Koffi Serge Pacôme Kouadio, Emmanuel Diboh, Seydou Silue, and Antoine Némé TAKO, “IMPACT OF MODERATE BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT ON THE EXPLICIT LEARNING OF A LIST OF WORDS IN YOUNG SCHOOLCHILDREN IN THE CITY OF ABIDJAN (CÔTE D’IVOIRE),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 38–45, July 2025.
