Caffeine enhances sustained attention among adolescents.

Cooper, Robert K.; Lawson, Schuyler C; Tonkin, Sarah S; Ziegler, Amanda M.; Temple, Jennifer L.; Hawk, Larry W.

doi:10.1037/pha0000364

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“…Fine et al, 1994; Lanini et al 2016;Cooper et al, 2021;McLellan et al, 2016), but are in line withDoan and colleagues (2006), who investigated caffeine effects on repeated cognitive performance in pilots during a 9-hour simulated ight. The authors found bene cial effects of caffeine (vs. placebo) on repeated performance of multiple cognitive tasks, but failed to nd effects on a Scanning Visual Vigilance Test (which is highly similar to a PVT -although their Scanning Visual…”

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“…Caffeine is among the most consumed psychoactive substances in the world, predominantly in the form of coffee and tea (Barone & Roberts, 1996;van Dam et al, 2020). Prior research using has extensively shown that caffeine has bene cial effects on vigilance (e.g., Baker & Theologus, 1972;Cooper et al, 2021) and selective attention (e.g. Lorist et al, 1994Lorist et al, , 1996Pan et al, 2000; for reviews, see, e.g., Rogers & Smith, 2011;Einöther & Giesbrecht, 2012;McLellan et al, 2016).…”

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“…The PVT is speci cally suitable for measuring effects of sleep deprivation, but it has also been used to measure vigilance-enhancing intervention effects in well-rested subjects (e.g. Fine et al, 1994;Lanini et al 2016;Cooper et al, 2021).…”

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A comparison of coffee effects on vigilance and attention in pilots across simple and complex lab environments

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Miltenburg,

Stiphout

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Professionally realistic multi-task environments, such as the NASA Multi-Attribute Task Battery (MATB-II), are employed for measuring vigilance and attention in professionals. However, it is unclear whether well-known intervention effects on performance during simple lab-based tasks, such as those of caffeine, also translate to these more realistic working situations. In a preregistered, double-blind, randomized, controlled repeated-measures experiment (https://osf.io/2zubx), we compared the performance of thirty-five civil pilots during vigilance- and attention-related tasks in simple (psychomotor vigilance task; auditory oddball detection) versus multitask environments (MATB-II system monitoring; MATB-II communications) after consuming regular vs. decaffeinated coffee. For vigilance tasks, no coffee intervention effects were found. Instead, a reversed task repetition effect was found, with participants being slower in session 2 in the simple task environment, but faster in session 2 in the complex environment. For attention-related tasks, regular coffee improved performance accuracy in the simple, but not the multitask environment. Coffee versus decaf effects in the simple task environment did not correlate with those in the complex task environment, neither for vigilance nor for selective attention. However, an experiment-wide increase in sleepiness was attenuated if participants drank regular coffee in the second session. This finding was supported by heart rate and eye blink measures. Results suggest that intervention-related findings do not easily translate to different vigilance- and attention-related tasks if task environments differ in complexity. The MATB-II multi-task environment, in its current form, is perhaps more suitable for assessing intervention effects on physiological measures of fatigue and vigilance than on cognitive performance.

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A comparison of coffee effects on vigilance and attention in pilots across simple and complex lab environments

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“…Furthermore, previous research has pointed out positive effects of physical activity on attention in adolescents [33]. Some studies have explored the association of dietary patterns and of specific food components with attention in adolescence [34][35][36]. Early life factors such as birth weight and exclusive breastfeeding have also been associated with attention in adolescents [37].…”

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Identifying Factors Influencing Attention in Adolescents with a Co-Created Questionnaire: A Citizen Science Approach with Secondary Students in Barcelona, Spain

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Barrera-Gómez

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Studies on factors that can influence attention in healthy adolescents are recent and focus on recurrent topics. Students’ contribution to public health research often revolves around collecting data but rarely around creating data collection instruments. The ATENC!Ó project reunited secondary students and scientists to create a questionnaire including factors that students thought could affect their attention. We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess whether the factors included in this questionnaire had an effect on attention in adolescents. A total of 1667 students (13–16 years old) from 28 schools in Barcelona performed a validated attention test and answered the questionnaire. The response speed consistency (attentiveness), expressed as hit reaction time standard error (HRT-SE, in ms), was used as the primary outcome. Analyses were conducted using conditional linear regression with school as strata, adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and further stratified by gender and maternal social class. Some factors showed a negative influence on attention, including taking medication and not reading regularly. We found a significant 14.3% (95% confidence interval: 3.4%, 25.3%) higher median of HRT-SE (increase inattentiveness) among students who reported not having a good relationship with classmates. Students’ input into research is relevant for advancing the knowledge production in public health.

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“…Caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) is the most widely used stimulant worldwide; thus, understanding its effects on neural activity has widespread implications for human behavior and performance. Caffeine is a stimulant that increases arousal and sustained attention, in addition to causing systemic physiological effects such as increasing blood pressure (Cooper et al 2020;Renda and De Caterina 2019). One common measure of arousal is resting-state electroencephalography (EEG), whereby spontaneous brain activity is measured in absence of any task-related effects (Newson and Thiagarajan 2019).…”

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Effect of caffeine on resting-state alpha activity across the human menstrual cycle

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Rationale Caffeine is the most consumed stimulant worldwide, and there is great interest in understanding its neurophysiological effects. Resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) studies suggest that caffeine enhances arousal, which suppresses the spectral power of alpha frequencies associated with reduced alertness. However, it is unclear whether caffeine's neurophysiological effects vary across the human menstrual cycle. Objective The objective of our study was to test whether caffeine's effect on EEG activity differs across the human menstrual cycle. Methods Fifty-six female participants were randomly assigned to complete the experiment while in either their menstrual (n = 21), follicular (n = 19), or luteal (n = 16) phase. Each participant completed two study sessions in the same menstrual phase, approximately 1 month apart, during which they were administered either a caffeine pill (200 mg, oral) or a placebo pill in a counterbalanced order using a randomized double-blinded procedure. We measured their eyes-closed resting-state EEG approximately 30 min after pill administration and conducted a spectral power analysis at different frequency bands. Results Caffeine reduced EEG power in the alpha 1 frequency band (8-10 Hz), but only for participants who self-reported higher weekly caffeine consumption. Importantly, caffeine's effects did not differ by menstrual phase. Conclusions We conclude that when studying caffeine's effects on resting-state EEG, participants' baseline caffeine consumption is more influential than their menstrual cycle phase. This study has important implications for the inclusion of menstruating individuals in neurophysiological studies of caffeine.

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Caffeine enhances sustained attention among adolescents.

Cited by 8 publications

References 65 publications

A comparison of coffee effects on vigilance and attention in pilots across simple and complex lab environments

A comparison of coffee effects on vigilance and attention in pilots across simple and complex lab environments

Identifying Factors Influencing Attention in Adolescents with a Co-Created Questionnaire: A Citizen Science Approach with Secondary Students in Barcelona, Spain

Effect of caffeine on resting-state alpha activity across the human menstrual cycle

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