TIM MARLOW: What you are saying to me is absolutely compelling and for our listeners, fortunately they don't have the distraction of a scantly clad girl in the background dancing.
And those are regions that we know support a certain set of cognitive skills: language skills like vocabulary and reading as well as the ability to avoid distraction and exert self-control.
The student said that doing the crossword on a computer help them really focus on the work in hand and not be distracted, which is something that comedy happens with other ways of doing revision.