EFFECTS OF CAFFEIN ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS 3
3
expectations can help improve memory recollection to a certain extent but, remember this only
happened when it was combined with caffeine (James, 2014).
There is a correlation between personality and cognitive functions. To understand this in
connection better, take a look at the effects of caffeine, personality, and memory. Caffeine seems
to increase the efficiency of working memory in extroverted personalities but seemed to have no
effect on working memory in introverted personalities. This shows a deeper connection than just
caffeine and the effects on the body. This also shows that one’s personality also might have an
effect on biological reactions.
Lastly, there need to make sure that other ingested items do not have an effect on the
memory recall of caffeine. To discover if the food had an effect on caffeine in memory Smith
(1994) conducted an experiment to see if breakfast and breakfast and caffeine combined had
different results for memory recall than pure caffeine (Bloomer, Majaj, Moran &
MacDonnchadh, 2015). His result showed by itself breakfast had no results on memory recall.
When combined caffeine enriched performance on cognitive functions and recognition memory
roles. Caffeine has no effect on semantic memory roles. It impairs the accurateness of carrying
out a logical reasoning. Contrary, caffeine expands the functioning of logical reasoning, semantic
memory, recognition memory tasks, and free recall. Although, if a group is given either caffeine
or a placebo that the group taking caffeine will have an overall higher memory recall when
taking a recall test. This helps reveal that regardless of food intake the increase in performance is
based on caffeine.
Caffeine has an impact on cognitive functions such as performance and mood through
impeding the tie of both benzodiazepine and adenosine receptor ligands to impact a person’s
