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This is Scientific American 60-Second Mind, I'm Christie Nicholson. Got a minute?

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There's a meditation practice called "mindfulness",

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that is about actively focusing on the present moment and increasing one's attention span.

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Recently scientists analyzed whether such a practice could help improve undergrads' test scores in the Graduate Record Exams, the GREs.

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The idea is that if we limit mind wandering, our ability to focus improves, and so will our cognitive ability.

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The researchers had 24 undergrads attend a mindfulness course and another 24 go to a nutrition class.

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Each 45-minute class met eight times over two weeks.

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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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The nutrition class covered strategies for healthy eating.

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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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The results?

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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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Mindfulness training was associated with a 16-percentile boost in GRE scores, on average.

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No word yet on whether the nutrition class attendees are eating better.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Mind. I'm Christie Nicholson.

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