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Sugar, aspartame and mental performance: a preliminary investigation
Author(s) -
Maben Andrea,
Smith Andrew
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
human psychopharmacology: clinical and experimental
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.461
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1099-1077
pISSN - 0885-6222
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1077(199601)11:1<21::aid-hup735>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - aspartame , artificial sweetener , recall , sugar , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , food science , chemistry , engineering , systems engineering
An experiment was carried out to examine the effects of sugar and aspartame 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 recall, delayed recognition memory, and semantic memory tasks was unaffected by the sweetener.