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" My doodles, for as long as I can remember, look most similar to\u2026caviar\u2014circles overlapping circles overlapping circles. (My mom&amp;#039;s doodle style is the same.) And though I&amp;#039;ve never been a serious doodler during meetings or classes\u2014no floppy back-pocket notebook as proof of my doodling addiction\u2014I&amp;#039;ve always taken note of the doodling habits of others: what they&amp;#039;re doodling, if it&amp;#039;s preventing them for participating in classes or meetings, etc. My conclusion: While it seems to depend on the extensiveness, and artistry, of the doodle, most often, the &amp;quot;non-focused drawing,&amp;quot; as Wikipedia describes it, has always appeared to aid concentration, or at the very least not detract from it.  In the past couple of days, a few news reports have surfaced based on a study testing that exact hypothesis, performed by English psychologist Jackie Andrade. Her small experiment involved 40 subjects split into two groups of 20. While listening to a &amp;quot;rather dull&amp;quot; tape, one group was asked to shade in a group of geometric shapes. Both groups were asked to take notes, meaning the doodlers were to juggle both tasks. Following the tape, all subjects were asked to verbalize the information they recorded, and according to Time.com, the non-doodlers got creamed. Below, the full video report with reporter Elizabeth Cohen. Embedded video from CNN Video "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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