Table 8.

Sub-chronic effects of cocoa supplementation on cognition: CDB cognitive tasks.

		Cycle 1						Cycle 2						Cycle 3
CDB Task	Group	Baseline (0 h)		Sub-chronic (4 weeks)		ANCOVA		Baseline (0 h)		Sub-chronic (4 weeks)		ANCOVA		Baseline (0 h)		Sub-chronic (4 weeks)		ANCOVA
		M	SD	M	SD	F	p	M	SD	M	SD	F	p	M	SD	M	SD	F	p
Serial threes correct (number)	Cocoa	24.47	12.39	39.63	18.06	0.13	0.73	31.68	12.98	41.63	17.42	0.92	0.34	33.42	13.29	39.89	17.09	0.05	0.82
	Placebo	19.83	9.43	33.29	14.49			25.17	14.46	38.76	19.08			29.35	15.64	36.35	15.81
Serial threes speed (ms)	Cocoa	5639.05	3426.91	3331.21	1617.37	0.28	0.60	3857.11	1876.65	3001.32	1408.70	0.04	0.84	3761.16	1697.78	3394.39	2560.07	0.68	0.42
	Placebo	6213.11	2487.61	3731.65	1329.49			4459.44	1546.01	3459.94	1697.89			4147.53	1521.50	3311.29	1222.84
Serial sevens correct (number)	Cocoa	15.37	11.04	22.58	11.76	0.83	0.37	17.63	10.10	21.79	12.70	0.04	0.85	18.79	10.53	25.50	13.93	0.13	0.72
	Placebo	13.50	8.91	19.00	9.39			14.83	7.68	20.12	7.54			13.76	7.63	21.29	10.45
Serial sevens speed (ms)	Cocoa	7561.05	4531.69	5659.89	2786.34	0.85	0.37	6603.95	3489.18	5062.21	2301.93	2.87	0.10	6472.42	3026.03	5578.11	3713.13	0.06	0.81
	Placebo	8304.89	3116.47	6749.76	3264.55			6733.94	1913.41	5828.00	2039.21			7235.47	2281.21	5914.18	2378.46
RVIP accuracy (%)	Cocoa	44.97	24.02	51.97	24.53	0.51	0.48	49.54	24.81	50.79	26.34	0.08	0.78	43.51	30.32	45.56	27.37	0.13	0.72
	Placebo	32.64	15.13	46.62	13.32			40.00	17.09	43.10	18.76			38.08	18.26	45.74	21.41
RVIP speed (ms)	Cocoa	452.78	58.71	462.40	45.67	1.64	0.21	472.21	57.02	469.86	60.76	1.41	0.24	475.10	40.25	471.05	53.15	0.72	0.40
	Placebo	470.89	54.87	488.69	44.62			493.91	49.29	501.40	51.32			493.75	53.52	491.83	45.30

RVIP, Rapid Visual Information Processing.