SUGAR, ASPARTAME AND MENTAL PERFORMANCE - A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Authors
MABEN A SMITH A
Citation
A. Maben et A. Smith, SUGAR, ASPARTAME AND MENTAL PERFORMANCE - A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION, Human psychopharmacology, 11(1), 1996, pp. 21-23
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,Psychology,"Pharmacology & Pharmacy","Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Human psychopharmacology → ACNP
ISSN journal
08856222
Volume
11
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
21 - 23
Database
ISI
SICI code
0885-6222(1996)11:1<21:SAAMP->2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
An experiment was carried out to examine the effects of sugar and aspa rtame in coffee on aspects of memory. The results showed that subjects given a sweetener performed a logical reasoning task more accurately but more slowly than subjects with no sweetener. Performance of free r ecall, delayed recognition memory, and semantic memory tasks was unaff ected by the sweetener.