Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/4vmYHwJ21dc   Smelling roses while studying and again while sleeping improves student outcomes.  Psychologists at Germany’s University of Freiberg studied 54 6th grade students.   The experimental students were exposed to rose-scented incense while learning vocabulary, sleeping, and taking a quiz on the subject the next day.  The control group had no scent exposures.  The rose-y kids demonstrated 30% better test results and improved memory.   Students of all ages in school or not could benefit from the pleasant fragrances of rose incense.  A pack of 100 sticks sells for about $10 online or buy two dozen roses for $20 on the street.  A potential problem:  you might turn out to be allergic to the scent.   Franziska Neumann et al, How odor cues help to optimize learning during sleep in a real life-setting, Scientific Reports (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-57613-7   #roses #learning #memory #rose incense