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20.02.2010

Quite often, the participants in the meetings, pretending to take notes, draw little devils or flowers in their notebooks. Psychologists from the University of Plymouth (UK) found that these "handwriting" help memorize the content of the reports.

Forty participants in the experiments listened to a sound recording of an uninteresting text read in a monotonous voice. Half of the participants were asked to just sit and listen, half were asked to draw whatever came to mind on a piece of paper. Then they checked how the subjects were able to remember the eight names and eight geographical names mentioned in the text.

It turned out that the results for those who drew were 29% better than for those who just listened. Apparently, drawing is not distracting, as one might think, but helps to concentrate.

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