Struggling with that last minute exam prep? Paint your walls yellow and red.

 

还在为迎战考试而作最后奋斗吗？把墙刷成黄色和红色吧。

 

Brightly coloured rooms can boost your concentration levels, scientists have discovered.

 

Students say they prefer to study in environments with pale colours which they feel are most relaxing, but researchers have found the opposite works better.

 

Levels of focus in students are higher when they are surrounded by vivid colours, a study from Curtin University, Australia found.

 

Student participants were asked to read a passage and answer multiple-choice questions adopted from a university entrance test in rooms with six different colour schemes.

 

The rooms were pale and vivid shades of blue, red and yellow.

 

Their reading comprehension scores were significantly higher in the vivid red and yellow rooms.

 

Several past studies have indicated the colours red and yellow are more stimulating¹ than blue and green.

 

For example, student pulse rates increased in red and yellow conditions, but decreased in blue.

 

This is consistent with the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which proposes that arousal improves performance up to an optimal² level, with additional arousal causing a drop off in performance.

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