“…But alcohol is known to slow saccadic motion and restrict eye movements during scene perception, object tracking (smooth pursuit) and face encoding (Buser et al, 1996;Harvey, 2014;Holdstock and de Wit, 1999;Moser et al, 1998;Nawrot et al, 2003;Wilkinson, 1976). It also impairs the detection of bilateral asymmetry in faces, leading to inflated judgments of interpersonal attractiveness (Halsey et al, 2010;Oinonen and Sterniczuk, 2007;Souto et al, 2008). These findings are consistent with the notion that alcohol reduces the amount of configural information drinkers can extract from an unfamiliar face.…”