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Mmm Gum: Good for Your Mouth and Your Musical Mind

Here's one way to improve your test scores:

The British Psychological Society reports on a finding with potential benefits for all you musicians out there: chewing gum improves performance of tasks using audio memory (prior research had shown that chewing gum can improve concentration in visual memory tasks).

The results showed that participants who chewed gum had quicker reaction times and more accurate results than the participants who didn't chew gum. This was especially the case towards the latter parts of the task.

Author of the study, Kate Morgan, explained: "Interestingly participants who didn't chew gum performed slightly better at the beginning of the task but were overtaken by the end. This suggests that chewing gum helps us focus on tasks that require continuous monitoring over a longer amount of time."

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