Who ever knew being a chatterbox will actually make you smarter?!?
The gift of gab could boost brainpower, new research suggests.
A U.S. team found that talking to another person for 10 minutes a day improves memory and test scores.
They found that "socializing was just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual performance," lead author Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said in a prepared statement.
In one investigation, they analyzed data on 3,610 people, ages 24 to 96.
They found that the higher their level of social interaction, the better their cognitive functioning. Social interaction included getting together or having phone chats with relatives, friends and neighbors.
Guess it's time to start chatting till dawn! :P
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