{"id":602572,"date":"2013-08-07T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=5e1ed9b347b7c59c0d2046950fccf790"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T16:25:56","slug":"chewing-gum-helps-you-sustain-vigilance-in-a-long-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/602572","title":{"rendered":"Chewing Gum Helps You Sustain Vigilance in a Long Task"},"content":{"rendered":"\n      \n\n      <p>At the beginning of a 30-minute computer-based vigilance task, the average reaction time of participants who were chewing gum was about <strong>70 milliseconds slower<\/strong> than that of non-chewers, but by the end, it was about <strong>100 milliseconds faster<\/strong>, suggesting that chewing gum can stem a decline of vigilance over a long task, says a team led by Kate Morgan of Cardiff University in the UK. Gum chewing has been shown to increase blood flow to the frontal-temporal region of the brain.<\/p>\n      \n   <div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=GaKzPE-trsM:EP8Q9wNl1B0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.harvardbusiness.org\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?a=GaKzPE-trsM:EP8Q9wNl1B0:bcOpcFrp8Mo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/harvardbusiness?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/harvardbusiness\/~4\/GaKzPE-trsM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of a 30-minute computer-based vigilance task, the average reaction time of participants who were chewing gum was about 70 milliseconds slower than that of non-chewers, but by the end, it was about 100 milliseconds faster, suggesting that chewing gum can stem a decline of vigilance over a long task, says a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2wKU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}