The Influence of a Glucose Drink on a Demanding Working Memory Task

Glucose modulates event-related potential components of recollection and familiarity in healthy adolescents

“…By contrast, other studies have found that glucose also improves performance on tasks subserved by other brain regions (e.g. Donohoe and Benton 1999;Martin and Benton 1999;Kennedy and Scholey 2000;Scholey et al 2001;Scholey et al 2009). Studies such as this question the robustness of the 'hippocampus hypothesis'.…”

The effect of glucose dose and fasting interval on cognitive function: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, six-way crossover study

“…Therefore, Martin and Benton (1999) investigated differences in the extent of cognitive facilitation after glucose ingestion in healthy young female participants who had or had not eaten breakfast. The result of the study demonstrated that whilst glucose administration improved working memory performance after an overnight fast, ingestion of a glucose drink had no effect on performance in participants who had eaten breakfast.…”

Glucose and caffeine effects on sustained attention: an exploratory fMRI study.

“…Evaluation of the cognitive effects of glucose has mainly been focused on its memory-improving action. For example, it has been shown that glucose increases verbal long-term retrieval in women (Foster et al, 1998) and produces facilitation on episodic memory tasks in older adults (Martin and Benton, 1999). More recently, Sünram-Lea et al, (2002) observed that glucose increases declarative learning, these effects lasting up to 24 h after administration.…”