Doodling Stops Daydreaming.
February 27, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Easy Health Tips, Happy Living Tip, Health, How To, Mental Health
Good news for those of us who discover at the end of a meeting or lecture that our notes are hidden by messy doodles, unintelligible to anyone but ourselves.
According to recent study carried out by UK researchers those who doodle have better memory recall than those who do not.
The study had the participants divided into two groups – one group was encouraged to color in shapes on a piece of paper while listening to a 2.5 minute telephone message and the other group was left to their own devices while listening.
Both groups, by the way, were told before the message began that it would be dull.
Directly after listening to the message, everyone was asked to write down the eight specific places and names mentioned in the message.
The results – doodlers on average recalled 7.5, while the non-doodlers only managed 5.8.
Seems doodlers might look like they are not paying attention but in fact, it turns out that they are paying more attention that those who are not doodling.
Why?
Well, the experts think that this is because doodling stops you from daydreaming.
So, go ahead, doodle away…
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Back in my college days, I used to think something was wrong with me because there were more marginal doodles than notes. Interesting post considering I graduate fifth in my class and I wasn’t an Art major.
In fact the tag on my personal website says, Websites | Photography | and some Doodling
I am 15 years old and I am currently interning for this great company called radicalparenting. When i was in elementary, back not too many years ago, I recall doodling in class while the teachers was speaking. I never thought I was doing anything wrong, but the teacher had a different idea about my “doodling problem”. I was one of the top students in my class, I never got into any trouble and my only problem was doodling. The teacher, one day, got so tired of my doodling that she called me out of class and gave me a demerit. From that day on I never doodled again until I got into high school, where it became a necessity, because the lectures where so long. Radical Parenting is a great parenting site written by teens and had an article similar to this- http://www.radicalparenting.com/2009/05/23/the-most-underrated-and-over-abused-teen-activity-doodling/
Andrea