ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2021
Caffeine enhances sustained attention among adolescents.
Article in Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The EEG-Indexed Impacts of Caffeine on Auditory Novelty Processing Across Phases of the Human Menstrual Cycle.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Differential Time-of-Day Effects of Caffeine Capsule and Mouth Rinse on Cognitive Performance in Adolescent Male Volleyball Athletes: A Randomized Crossover Investigation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A parametric investigation of binaural beats for brain entrainment and enhancing sustained attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identifying Factors Influencing Attention in Adolescents with a Co-Created Questionnaire: A Citizen Science Approach with Secondary Students in Barcelona, Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Prenatal tobacco and tobacco-cannabis co-exposure: Relationship with attention and memory in middle childhood.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
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Abstract
Despite the growing interest in caffeine use and its effects among adolescents, and a large literature on caffeine and attention among adults, there is a lack of experimental work examining the impact of caffeine on sustained attention among adolescents. We evaluated the acute effects of caffeine (vs. placebo) during a long (33-min) classic vigilance task among 31 adolescents (aged 12-17; 15 female; median caffeine use = 28 mg/day). We predicted a dose-dependent effect of caffeine, which would attenuate declines in target detection over time (i.e., a vigilance decrement). In each of 3 visits, participants completed an identical pairs continuous performance task beginning ∼25 min after consumption of noncaloric flavored water containing placebo, 1 mg/kg, or 3 mg/kg caffeine (order counterbalanced). Percent hits for low probability targets across 12 100-trial blocks was the primary outcome measure. As predicted, the linear decline in hits across trial blocks was attenuated by caffeine (Caffeine vs. Placebo × Block Linear,
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