Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory, Study Shows
Neuroscientist William Fishbein says that deep, “slow-wave” sleep can help us commit information to memory, learn new skills, and extrapolate information. Science news site Physorg reports that Fishbein and a graduate student studied English-speaking students’ ability to remember Chinese characters they were taught just before a nap (and some without a nap):
Upon awakening, they took a multiple-choice test of Chinese words they’d never seen before. The nappers did much better at automatically learning that the first of the two-pair characters in the words they’d memorized earlier always meant the same thing—female, for example. So they also were more likely than non-nappers to choose that a new word containing that character meant “princess” and not “ape.”
Add this latest study fuel to the fire of our unabashed pro-nap agenda; and while you’re here see our top 10 ways to sleep smarter and better. Photo by Tina Keller.
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I heard beer has a similar effect
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I used to nap in college mid-day; I had read that Booker T. Washington could nap for 15 minutes and feel refreshed again for the rest of the day. Booker knew this before there was a study behind it.
Now I get out of work and will sometimes take a quick nap. I wish I could take one right now!!
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