Everyone knows that exercise can make your inner and outer body healthier, but can it also make you smarter? Well, Professor Charles Hillman from the University of Illinois, says yes.
He has proven, in his recent research that a little bit of physical exercise is in fact good for attention skills and information processing. It also improves the performance in cognitive test taking.
Hillman had volunteers run on treadmills, while wearing funny space-age skull-caps, which monitor brain waves with EEG’S. Before and after the treadmill running, he had the subjects take computer cognition tests.
Here’s what Hillman found:
Just thirty minutes of movement can make a person up to 10% smarter. He discovered that the test participants got more answers right, and more quickly.
The act of exercising increases the size of frontal lobes. This is not only good for attention capability, but it directly improves achievement test results.
Taking a test today or tomorrow? Why not first hit up the gym!
And for those who use the term, “dumb jocks”, you want to think again before it rolls off of your tongue. All of the working out, actually ups regulation of the brain derived neurotrophin factor. What are these? They are a family of proteins that induce the survival, development and function of neurons.
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