## Abstract The present study examined caffeine's effect on mental performance in contrast to a recent study (Loke and Goh, 1992) which examined the effects of caffeine userβeffect on mental performance. Taken together, the studies would provide a detailed understanding of the effects of caffeine a
Gender Effects in Information Processing on a Nonverbal Decoding Task
β Scribed by Petra C. Schmid; Marianne Schmid Mast; Dario Bombari; Fred W. Mast
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-0025
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