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JessiccaA Better Reason for You to Doodle Now!
March 17th 2009 23:21
Your Children love to doodle, but you always scolded them no to do it? Well, from now on, you should let them doodle more frequently!
According to a recent study, there are 40 members from the research panel of the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Science Unit in Cambridge has taken a test. All the participants were listened to a two and a half minute tape giving several names of people and places. They have to jot down only the names of people that want to attend to a party. During the test, 20 of the participants have to shade in shapes on a piece of paper at the same time. For your information, none of the participants was being told that it’s a memory test!
The result of the test was the doodlers were able to recall on average 7.5 names of people and places, while the non-doodlers are managed to recall on average 5.8, which is 29% lesser than the doodler.
Professor Jackie Andrade, PhD of the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth said that when we’re doing some boring job, such as listening to dull telephone conversation, we might starting to daydream during the conversation. In order to stop the daydream, we should do the doodling, as it not only can stop the daydream, but with boost up our concentration on the main task. Doodle can let the your little angels express their own thoughts and imagination, where it's good for the brain's development!
Hence, if you want your children to become smarter, then you should spend some quality “Doodling” times with them…
By the way, what can you see on the above doodle?
PS: Picture thanks to allaboutdrawings.
According to a recent study, there are 40 members from the research panel of the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Science Unit in Cambridge has taken a test. All the participants were listened to a two and a half minute tape giving several names of people and places. They have to jot down only the names of people that want to attend to a party. During the test, 20 of the participants have to shade in shapes on a piece of paper at the same time. For your information, none of the participants was being told that it’s a memory test!
The result of the test was the doodlers were able to recall on average 7.5 names of people and places, while the non-doodlers are managed to recall on average 5.8, which is 29% lesser than the doodler.
Professor Jackie Andrade, PhD of the School of Psychology, University of Plymouth said that when we’re doing some boring job, such as listening to dull telephone conversation, we might starting to daydream during the conversation. In order to stop the daydream, we should do the doodling, as it not only can stop the daydream, but with boost up our concentration on the main task. Doodle can let the your little angels express their own thoughts and imagination, where it's good for the brain's development!
Hence, if you want your children to become smarter, then you should spend some quality “Doodling” times with them…
By the way, what can you see on the above doodle?
PS: Picture thanks to allaboutdrawings.
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Can't quite understand why doodling would boost our concentration on the main task, though it seems easier to imagine why it might stop us from daydreaming. I suppose that by preventing our minds from wandering, it helps us focus more fully on the task at hand--though I suspect there's a bit more to it than that (probably something to do with the right/left brain). Fascinating topic! I really enjoy reading research on the human brain. That's why I enjoy Robyn McMaster's Brain Based Biz and Ellen Weber's Brain Leaders and Learners blogs so much.
Thanks for sharing the results of that study!
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