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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?
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2 .There's a meditation practice called "mindfulness",
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3 .that is about actively focusing on the present moment and increasing one's attention span.
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4 .Recently scientists analyzed whether such a practice could help improve undergrads' test scores in the Graduate Record Exams, the GREs.
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5 .The idea is that if we limit mind wandering, our ability to focus improves, and so will our cognitive ability.
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6 .The researchers had 24 undergrads attend a mindfulness course and another 24 go to a nutrition class.
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7 .Each 45-minute class met eight times over two weeks.
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8 .The mindfulness class taught students physical and mental strategies they can use to improve their ability to focus on the task at hand, and ignore interrupting thoughts.
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9 .The nutrition class covered strategies for healthy eating.
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10 .The students took a working memory test as well as the verbal reasoning section of the GRE before and after the two-week courses.
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11 .The results?
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12 .Students who received the mindfulness training saw much greater improvement in working memory and their GRE scores than those who took the nutrition class.
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13 .Mindfulness training was associated with a 16-percentile boost in GRE scores, on average.
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14 .No word yet on whether the nutrition class attendees are eating better.
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.
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