Thursday, June 13, 2013

Daily Aha! w/ Dr. Oz

|
Daily Aha!
Making a fist with your right hand can help you memorize things.
In a recent study, four groups of participants were told to commit to memory a list of 72 words. Two groups clenched one fist before memorizing and again before remembering the words. The other two groups switched the hand they clenched. The group that made a right-handed fist when memorizing the words and a left-handed fist when recalling them outperformed the other three. The study authors think that making a fist activates brain regions that are associated with memory.

No comments:

Post a Comment