<div align="justify">Suffering a creative block? Drinking a pint of beer may trigger productivity and help you think out of the box for your artistic tasks, a study suggests.<br /><br />Scientists from the University of Graz in Austria found that people performed better in a range of creative tasks after drinking moderate amount of alcohol.<br /><br />In one word association test, a pint of beer for men, or around 350 mililitres (ml) for women, increased test scores by around 40 per cent.<br /><br />In the test, participants were given three words and asked to think of a word that can be connected to each - for example, the word 'pit' can be attached to 'peach', 'arm' and 'tar'.<br /><br />Alcohol helps remove parameters which surround a problem, allowing more creative thought, researchers said.<br /><br />However, while alcohol boosted creativity it decreased 'executive function'. This may impede tasks that require motor skills, such as painting or dancing.<br /><br />"Anecdotal reports link alcohol intoxication to creativity," Mathias Benedek, from the University of Gras, was quoted as saying by 'The Telegraph'.<br /><br />"Alcohol impaired executive control, but improved performance in the Remote Associates Test," said Benedek, lead author of the research was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.<br /><br />"Beneficial effects are likely restricted to very modest amounts of alcohol, whereas excessive alcohol consumption typically impairs creative productivity," he said. <br /></div>
<div align="justify">Suffering a creative block? Drinking a pint of beer may trigger productivity and help you think out of the box for your artistic tasks, a study suggests.<br /><br />Scientists from the University of Graz in Austria found that people performed better in a range of creative tasks after drinking moderate amount of alcohol.<br /><br />In one word association test, a pint of beer for men, or around 350 mililitres (ml) for women, increased test scores by around 40 per cent.<br /><br />In the test, participants were given three words and asked to think of a word that can be connected to each - for example, the word 'pit' can be attached to 'peach', 'arm' and 'tar'.<br /><br />Alcohol helps remove parameters which surround a problem, allowing more creative thought, researchers said.<br /><br />However, while alcohol boosted creativity it decreased 'executive function'. This may impede tasks that require motor skills, such as painting or dancing.<br /><br />"Anecdotal reports link alcohol intoxication to creativity," Mathias Benedek, from the University of Gras, was quoted as saying by 'The Telegraph'.<br /><br />"Alcohol impaired executive control, but improved performance in the Remote Associates Test," said Benedek, lead author of the research was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.<br /><br />"Beneficial effects are likely restricted to very modest amounts of alcohol, whereas excessive alcohol consumption typically impairs creative productivity," he said. <br /></div>