"How Do You Doodle: Your Sketches May Be Giving Away Your Secrets". "Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task". The study was done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, who reported that doodlers in her experiment recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group made of non-doodlers. Thus, it acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. Effects on memoryĪccording to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power, as well as from not paying attention. Internet giant Google has given a new dimension to the word by having "doodles" in its main page on certain acclaimed occasions. According to the DVD audio commentary track, the word as used in this sense was invented by screenwriter Robert Riskin.
Deeds mentions that "doodle" was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think. The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title " Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. It derives from the German dudeln, to play (originally, to play the bagpipe or dudelsack). The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton.
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