L-Theanine and Reduced Stroop Reaction Time

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  • 2025-10-30
  • Review
  • Journal of clinical medicine 14(21)
  • • Rebeka Olga Mátyus
    • Zsóka Szikora
    • Diána Bodó
    • Bettina Vargáné Szabó
    • Éva Csupor
    • Dezső Csupor
    • Barbara Tóth

  • PubMed: 41227106
  • DOI: 10.3390/jcm14217710

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Stroop Reaction Time

  • Low evidence
  • Adults

  and in the Stroop test (MD: -37.38 ms; 95%-CI [-86.39; 11.62])

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No