The facilitative effects of glucose ingestion on memory retrieval in younger and older adults: Is task difficulty or task domain critical?

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 414-420

  Riby, Leigh M ^a   McMurtrie, Hazel ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^b   Ballantyne, Carrie ^a   Meikle, Andrew ^a   Smith, Emily ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive performance; Episodic memory; Glucose; Semantic memory; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SACCHARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; RATING SCALE; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD RECOGNITION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEVERAGE; DRUG EFFECT; HEART RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BEVERAGES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GLUCOSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; SACCHARIN;

EID: 33644925579     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN20051649     Document Type: Article

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