咀嚼口香糖对认知及情绪的影响

The Effect of Chewing Gum on Cognition and Emotion

本文系统地综述了近期关于咀嚼口香糖对负性情绪调节和认知功能的影响,以及咀嚼口香糖的脑机制的实验研究。这些研究发现,咀嚼口香糖对人们的负性情绪调节,注意、记忆、学习等认知功能起到了积极的促进作用,咀嚼口香糖所激活的脑区与负责运动、记忆、注意和情绪等高级功能的脑区有一定的重叠。

This article aimed to systematical sum up some results about the experiments on the effect of chewing gum on negative emotion regulation and cognitive functions. The results from these researches suggested that chewing gum has a positive effect on negative emotion regulation and some cognitive functions such as attention, memory and learning.