Re:The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum
by angelbob on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @06:36PM
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Indeed. It may or may not be related to the fact that listening to music helps memory and cognition slightly -- as long as you're not concentrating on an auditory task.
For whatever reason, occupying systems of your body that aren't required for a given type of thinking (gum for non-tactile tasks, music for non-auditory tasks) seems to help that thinking task.
Odd.
I write my To Do's on a blank piece of paper, but in half an hour they are magically hidden between a bunch of numbers, silly equations, arrows and squares. I do not enjoy doing it (afterwards, heh).
Can you elaborate on the last line you wrote?
Re:The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum
by artmageddon on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:32PM
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That was probably a reference to this link:
It's not hard to imagine how physically occupying yourself in some way, whether it's doodling or chewing gum or diddling your thumbs or playing with a pen, frees up your mind to concentrate on a mental task.