The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum

Re:The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum by gwern on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @03:55PM (#3292135)

I saw one result for memory performance in right-handed people ( http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#saccading ) - was that what you saw? Doesn't seem connected to emotional processing.

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Re:The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum by gojomo on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @04:07PM (#3292178)

The emotional result I was thinking of is the use of 'Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing' (EMDR) for PTSD treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_an...

Here's an example of eye-movements improving certain kinds of recall:

http://www.livescience.com/1473-moving-eyes-improves-memory-...

By one view of memory – recall makes memories stronger – the EMDR result might seem paradoxical. Making traumatic memories stronger helps? But there's also the theory that recall is really recall-and-re-store, perhaps modified, so maybe EMDR helps recast the same memories to be less loaded. Per Wikipedia there's still some controversy over EMDR.

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