Coffee smell helps you get better grades in math

A new study confirms that smelling coffee can help you achieve higher scores in math tests.

According to Newsweek, drinking coffee seems to be a boon. A few cups of coffee a day can protect the heart. Many scientific studies have shown that people who drink coffee live longer, healthier and suffer from diseases such as Parkinson's and diabetes.

Recently, a study continues to confirm that coffee also brings benefits to human cognitive function.

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Coffee also brings benefits to human cognitive function.

This study shows that the smell of coffee can make people more alert and energetic . Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey found that those who smelled this way got better scores in math when taking the Graduation Management Competency Test (GMAT) - a aptitude tests required by many business schools.

Adriana Madzharov, one of the study's authors, said: "This is an interesting thing. Of course, not the smell of coffee is all the factor that helps people do better analytical tasks. But those Participants in the experiment thought they did better and we proved that the smell of coffee contributed a part in improving their performance. "

Even the smell of coffee-like, caffeine-free aromas creates the same effect as coffee.

To test the effect of coffee smell, the researchers produced a GMAT algebra test with 10 questions for about 100 college students.

They made the test room full of coffee smell before leading the first group to take the test. A second group also performed a similar test in the room without the slight aroma of coffee.

The results showed that those who smelled the soft coffee smell seemed to be neurologically stimulated and scored significantly higher.

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Gentle coffee smells seem to be nerve-stimulating and score higher.

After completing the test, the participants believed that they had a sense of coffee smell which increased their analytical ability.

This has led researchers to believe that a coffee-like scent may have a similar placebo effect on other aspects of activity, such as the ability to reason through words.

Madzharov said: "Smelling is one of our most powerful senses. Employers, architects, construction developers, retail managers and others can use scent to help employees or people working together. It is an area that many people care about and are very potential. "

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