Serendipitous vindication! Ha!
Posted by mofembot Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:54:00 GMT
Remember what I wrote yesterday? Do you? Do you? Huh? (If not, scroll down. It’s still there.)
I said that doodling helps me focus during boring meetings. And guess what, ha ha ha. It does. Read this and marvel:
Researchers in the United Kingdom found that test subjects who doodled while listening to a recorded message had a 29 percent better recall of the message’s details than those who didn’t doodle. The findings were published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.“If someone is doing a boring task, like listening to a dull telephone conversation, they may start to daydream,” study researcher Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, said in a news release issued by the journal’s publisher. “Daydreaming distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer performance. A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task.”
http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/takenotedoodlingcanhelpmemory.html
So there.