Could coffee and AI music help improve productivity and cognition?

In their recent MINDWATCH study, Associate Professor Rose Faghih and her team found that music and coffee measurably altered subjects' brain arousal, essentially putting them in a physiological "state of mind" that could modulate their performance in the working memory tasks they were performing. “Our eventual goal is that [MINDWATCH] will contribute to technology that could allow any person to monitor his or her own brain cognitive arousal in real time…MINDWATCH could 'nudge' a person towards simple and safe interventions — perhaps listening to music — so they could get themselves into a brain state in which they feel better and perform job or school tasks more successfully,” explained Faghih.