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Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory
An anonymous reader writes "A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins has published results demonstrating that caffeine seems to boost long-term memory. In a double-blind study, participants were shown a series of images soon after taking either a caffeine pill or a placebo; 24 hours later they were tested on a similar, but not identical, series of images. Those who took the caffeine pill were more likely to correctly classify images as being different, identical, or similar to those seen the previous day; researchers refer to this as a 'pattern separation' test. The beneficial effect of caffeine on the long-term memory of honey bees was covered by Slashdot earlier."
As a heavy caffeine user, I confirm that... hmm... erm... what was I saying?
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
so *that's* the secret.
Yup, that's the secret. Feed coffee to your computer and you won't need backups any more.
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What, we're hiring scientists with severe ADHD now???
Raktajino helps me remember Trek trivia.
We are the biped evolution of bees. It's a fact now
I'll take it with cream and sugar, thanks for asking.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
our hardwired religious abuse fairytail history & heritage will have to do?
Ever notice the similarities between evangelical Christians and evangelical athiests? Neither drawer's knives are very sharp (and as Pratchett says, they may even be spoons).
In other news, caffeinated bees boost long term cardio health for humans running in fear.
The memory center in the human brain is the hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped area in the medial temporal lobe of the brain.
Then why don't they call it the seahorsecampus? These guys make everything so difficult.
I don't know how I remembered your Folger's reference as I don't think they showed it in the UK when I was a kid in the 70s. Must be the blood content in my caffeine stream.
You're a temporary arrangement of matter sliding towards oblivion in a cold, uncaring universe