Green tea consumption rapidly enhances cognitive performance and flow state during mental tasks in healthy young adults

• Chie Kurosaka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Kurosaka, Shinji Miyake, Yuka Tatsumi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: chie-k@health.uoeh-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Human, Information and Life Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0363-0433

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• Shinji Miyake ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Kurosaka, Shinji Miyake, Yuka Tatsumi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Makoto Kobayashi ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Central Research Institute, ITOEN, Ltd., Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Chika Tagata ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Central Research Institute, ITOEN, Ltd., Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Yuka Tatsumi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chie Kurosaka, Shinji Miyake, Yuka Tatsumi

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Central Research Institute, ITOEN, Ltd., Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan

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