The act of drawing is also said to relieve stress. But with the mental energy you expend drawing, it stops your mind from taking that extra step and wandering. While it might seem counterintuitive, when you’re trying to pay attention to someone talking, for instance, you’re prone to daydreaming.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).Doodlers are more focused, even when they are engaging in other passive tasks. Taken together, these findings indicate that unlike task-relevant drawing, structured doodling during study provides no benefits to free recall, and free-form doodling leads to memory costs.
Creating a drawing of the words at encoding, rather than doodling, once again enhanced recall significantly. Structured doodling led to similar levels of recall compared to simply writing. In Experiment 3, we used a structured doodling task at encoding, such that participants shaded in geometric shapes printed on paper rather than create their own doodles. As in Experiment 1, doodling led to the poorest subsequent recall for targets compared to drawing or writing during encoding. Participants monitored each auditorily presented narrative while either free-form doodling, drawing, or writing in response to the target words. In Experiment 2, target words were embedded in a narrative story to better resemble a real-world situation in which one might doodle. Participants showed poorer free recall for words encoded while free-form doodling compared to words that were drawn or written, with drawing resulting in the best performance.
They were asked to either doodle, draw a picture of, or write out, each item while listening to the target words. In Experiment 1, participants heard auditorily presented lists of categorized words. The purpose of the present study was to determine the extent to which doodling, which we define as drawing that is semantically unrelated to to-be-remembered information, enhances memory performance.
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