High‐intensity and blackout drinking impact on next‐day cognitive functioning among college‐attending young adults

Overall, while high-intensity drinking and blackout drinking were both associated with more self-reported retrospective memory lapses, only high-intensity drinking was linked with self-reported prospective memory lapses and only blackout drinking was linked to performance-based cognition. These findings generally indicate that young adults experienced more cognitive lapses the morning after intense drinking and blackout drinking events. As a key indicator of longer-term cognitive outcomes is observed functional impacts in young adulthood, early prevention and intervention in this age group is warranted.