In 2015, researchers conducted a study where they used 224 undergraduates from St. Lawrence University to test chewing gum and grades. They next divided these 224 subjects into three groups. “One chewed gum before and during the test, another chewed gum for five minutes before being tested, and a third didn’t chew anything. The researchers then gave them a battery of tests to determine their brainpower.”
The researchers found that the students’ grades did improve, but only for a brief time. Researchers found that the gum “helped during recall and memory tasks especially.” Serge Onyper, who conducted the study at St. Lawrence University, stated that even though the chewing gum group remembered more, in reality, they only remembered two-to-three more words. In the long run, two to three words can help you remember something, so the number might seem small, but it does affect the score.
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So you might be asking why gum actually helps you recall information... Well, Onyper sug...
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