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A common feature associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is the inability to concentrate on a specific task while ignoring distractions. Human continuous performance tasks (CPT), measure vigilance and cognitive control simultaneously while these processes are traditionally measured separately in rodents. We recently established a touchscreen 5‐choice CPT (5C‐CPT) that measures vigilance and cognitive control simultaneously by incorporating both target and nontargets and showed it was sensitive to amphetamine‐induced improvement in humans and mice. Here, we examined the effects of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in male and female mice on performance of the 5‐choice serial reaction time task (5‐CSRTT), which contained only target trials, and the 5C‐CPT which incorporated both target and nontarget trials. In addition, we assessed gait and fine motor coordination in behavioral …