Authors: Greg Avalos
Mentors: Sierra Warner
Insitution: Southern Utah University
The primary objective of this study is to explore caffeine's impact on explicit memory, particularly during the early morning when cognitive performance tends to be at its lowest. We aim to investigate how caffeine modulates attention, memory recall, and consolidation, shedding light on the less-understood psychological effects of caffeine in a real-world context. Participants will be assigned either the caffeine condition or the noncaffeine condition and will be tested on their explicit memory recall using the Craft 21 story recall test. Expected results are that those in the caffeine condition will score higher on the Craft 21 story recall test compared to those who didn't drink caffeine before the study.