The Impact of a high versus a low glycaemic index breakfast cereal meal on verbal episodic memory in healthy adolescents
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Maney Publishing
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science
RAS ID
5853
Abstract
In this study, healthy adolescents consumed either (i) a low glycaemic index breakfast cereal meal or (ii) a high glycaemic index breakfast cereal meal, before completing a test of verbal episodic memory in which the memory materials were encoded under conditions of divided attention. Analysis of remembering/forgetting indices revealed that the high glycaemic index breakfast group remembered significantly more items relative to the low glycaemic index breakfast group after a long delay. The superior performance observed in the high glycaemic index group, relative to the low glycaemic index group, may be due to the additional glucose availability provided by the high glycaemic index meal at the time of memory encoding. This increased glucose availability may be necessary for effective encoding under dual task conditions
DOI
10.1179/147683008X344110
Comments
Smith, M., & Foster, J. K. (2008). The Impact of a High versus a Low Glycaemic Index Breakfast Cereal Meal on Verbal Episodic Memory in Healthy Adolescents. Nutritional Neuroscience, 11(5), 219-227. Available