Caffeine improves recognition of positive words

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 21:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Caffeine perks up most coffee-lovers, but a new study shows a small dose of caffeine also increases their speed and accuracy for recognizing words with positive connotation. The research shows that caffeine enhances the neural processing of positive words, but not those with neutral or negative associations.

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