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A two-week mindfulness course might sound too short to make any real difference, but in one UCSB study it cut mind-wandering and lifted GRE reading-comprehension by roughly 16 percentile points, along with working memory

A two-week mindfulness course might sound too short to make any real difference, but in one UCSB study it cut mind-wandering and lifted GRE reading-comprehension by roughly 16 percentile points, along with working memory

Sixteen percentile points. That is the size of the average GRE reading-comprehension gain a group of undergraduates posted after two weeks, in a study run by researchers at UC Santa Barbara. Not a year of tutoring. Two weeks of mindfulness class. My first reaction was the same one you are probably having, so let me [...] The post A two-week mindfulness course might sound too short to make any real difference, but in one UCSB study it cut mind-wandering and lifted GRE reading-comprehension by roughly 16 percentile points, along with working memory appeared first on Space Daily .