Cute Pictures of Dogs and Cats Can Improve Human Focus

A research group from Japan says that looking at cute pictures of animals in between mental activities may improve humans' ability to focus. Gillian Pensavalle has the story and applied this very technique to her own research.

Published

8 months ago

Categories

Health

Topics

Animals & Pets, Mental Health

People

Gillian Pensavalle

Places

Japan

Transcript

but been some prevent are doing great i know a few pictures are they all hands on and on about sixty of days own maybe i'm getting a little ahead of myself but i do japanese researchers backing me up and the japanese know that there's you know about cuba that it turns out that punitive damages actually help people get better and you know not just another cute pictures although i'm sure it doesn't hurt this evidence that some activities like playing a game similar operations and identifying text of the images after a few rounds it would be shown at the adorable pictures of animals and they performed forty four percent that are now i should be honest with you on the forty four percent showed up in the operation began and there is only eighty two percent improvement over the text and image identication activity and they're also giving themselves some pretty decent program so keep those adorable animal pictures coming in