Glucose administration prior to a divided attention task improves tracking performance but not word recognition: Evidence against differential memory enhancement?

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 549-558

  Scholey, Andrew B ^a   Sünram Lea, Sandra I ^b   Greer, Joanna ^c   Elliott, Jade ^c   Kennedy, David O ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional resources; Cognitive enhancement; Glucose; Memory

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; APPETITE; ATTENTION; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HUNGER; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THIRST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59449107119     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1387-1     Document Type: Article

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