Sunday, March 7th, 2010...1:48 pm
Naps improve learning ability
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“When we initially learn something, it’s collected in the hippocampus, which is a short-term reservoir in the brain. For that memory to survive, it needs to live in the brain’s long-term memory, or the cortex.
Walker’s group hypothesized that while we sleep, information is shifted from one location to another, and the change in the geography of information could improve learning afterward.
In the study, researchers took two groups of healthy young adults. Each group completed two learning sessions. The difference was that between the first and second sessions, one group got to take a 90-minute nap. Members of the group that got the nap improved in their ability to learn by 10 percent, while the non-napping group did 10 percent worse.”
Via Naps May Improve Performance Later In The Day
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