Doodling Can Help Memory?
I found a article on Yahoo.com which claimed that doodling helps to remember stuff:
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.”
For the experiment, a two-and-a-half minute listing of several people’s names and places was played for test subjects, who were charged with writing down only the names of the people said to be attending a party. During the recording, half the participants were asked to simultaneously shade in shapes on a piece of paper without attention to neatness. Participants were not told they were taking part in a memory test.
I thought this was very interesting as I always start to daydream when I’m listening to something boring, so this would help me a lot 
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Ayakibob – this is a great article, it sounds like! That is very interesting indeed. Maybe we should all be doodling in class?
But where is the LINK to the article you found on Yahoo? Can you put it in here, please? I’d like to read it, and I’m sure other readers of your blog would be interested too!
I ♥ that I’m always learning things when I read your blog!
Posted March 10, 2009, 4:23 pm