Doodling Helps Memory
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Ever catch yourself absentmindedly drawing while listening to a lecture? You may have been helping yourself recall it later. A new study has shown that doodling may improve memory. Forty members of the research panel of the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge were asked to listen to a short recording of people and places. At the end of the tape, the participants were asked to recall the names of the eight people and eight of the place names. Those who had doodled during the tape recalled an average of 7.5 names compared to just 5.8 by those who had not. Researchers theorize this may be because doodling provides just enough of a distraction to keep listeners from daydreaming and becoming fully sidetracked Read more: What does doodling do? SHARE:
Posted In: Memory | Tags: Memory | Posted by FindCounseling.com Staff on March 08, 2009 at 07:00 PM | Permalink |
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