I have a reputation as an unrepentant doodler. I doodle my way through every meeting and every long phone call. Many of the designers I know share this habit. Well, turns out, doodling actually aids memory.

In a delightful new study, which will be published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, psychologist Jackie Andrade of the University of Plymouth in southern England showed that doodlers actually remember more than nondoodlers when asked to retain tediously delivered information, like, say, during a boring meeting or a lecture.

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