Salivary cortisol (sCort) and salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) constitute proxy measures of the
two major stress response systems, ie the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the …

Caffeine is the world's most popular stimulant and is consumed daily by a significant portion
of the world's population through coffee, tea, soda, and energy drinks. Consumers often …

Tea is perceived as more relaxing than coffee, even though both contain caffeine. L-
theanine in tea may account for the difference. Consumed together, caffeine and theanine …

Background: Reading is a unique human skill. Several brain networks involved in this
complex skill mainly involve the left hemisphere language areas. Nevertheless, nonlinguistic …

Background:“Global processing bias” is an automatic tendency to process the global picture
prior to the local details. The right hemisphere is known to be more dominant in global …

Caffeine has become the most prevalently consumed psychostimulant in the world, but its
influences on daily real-world functioning are relatively unknown. The present work …

Cross-linked inulin (X-inulin) microparticles were synthesized in reverse micelles using
water-in-oil microemulsion polymerization. Linear inulin was crosslinked with divinyl sulfone …

Objective Weak central coherence (WCC) refers to a bias towards processing details (local
processing) at the expense of paying attention to the bigger picture (global processing) …

Few would argue against the position that spatial cognition involves cognition. Much of
spatial cognition research has focused on illuminating the domain-general processes (eg …

Caffeine reliably increases emotional arousal, but it is unclear whether and how it influences
other dimensions of emotion such as emotional valence. These experiments documented …