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How just one coffee boosts multi-tasking

IT’S quick to make, gives you a boost in the morning – and now, it seems, one cup of coffee even makes multi-tasking easier.

Researchers asked 3 people to press different buttons when they saw either the number one or the number two on a screen. They then gave them two more buttons to press when they heard two different sounds playing at the same time.

Those who did the experiment without drinking a coffee beforehand were around 0.68 seconds slower when pressing multiple buttons compared to when they were focusing on just one task. But those who were allowed a cup of instant black coffee were only 0. 4 seconds slower.

Dr Andre Szameitat, who led the study from Brunel University, said that coffee drinkers ‘may be pleased by the results’. But he stressed that the study, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was only small and said more research was needed.

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