date:May 11, 2012
ly and remember a sequence of seven randomly ordered letters (e.g. P, V, B, C, D, G, T). A smaller sample was then asked to repeat the experiment, but told to chew naturally.
In the second test, students chewed flavourless gum and were tasked to find the missing item in a sequence (e.g. seven is missing from the list: 28149365).
In both tests gum chewing was found to harm STM.
Finally, participants were asked to tap their fingers rather than chew gum and repeat the second test to compare the