Sunday, March 13, 2011

Afternoon Nap Boosts Study Skills By 20 Percent

I don't know very many people who can squeeze in a 90  minute nap each day.....except for my neighbors who don't seem to do much of anything except smoke and spit.

A good night's sleep is crucial to storing knowledge learned earlier in the day — that much was known. Now, a new study finds that getting shut-eye before you learn is important, too.

Volunteers who took a 100-minute nap before launching into an evening memorization task scored an average of 20 percentage points higher on the memory test compared with people who did the memorization without snoozing first.

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