Taking a deep breath before doing something may make you better at it, scientists have found. People performed better at identifying whether shapes on a screen could be possible in the real world when inhaling compared to exhaling. Scroll down for videoPeople performed better at shape-based questions when inhaling than inhaling. People scored an average of 73 per cent when inhaling, compared to 68 per cent when breathing out. Another test asked participants if a word was real or made up and inhaling did not improve ability on this test.

Source: Daily Mail March 12, 2019 09:33 UTC