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January 13, 2014

Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans

D Borota et al, 2014, Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans, Nature Neuroscience, published online ahead of print.

It is currently not known whether caffeine has an enhancing  effect on long-term memory in humans. We used post-study  caffeine administration to test its effect on memory  consolidation using a behavioral discrimination task. Caffeine  enhanced performance 24 h after administration according to an  inverted U-shaped dose-response curve; this effect was specific  to consolidation and not retrieval. We conclude that caffeine  enhanced consolidation of long-term memories in humans.

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