A study in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory found that napping during the day improves memory.
Children fight taking naps, adults wish they had the luxury...and it appears that if they did they would be sharper for it. The study shows adults can rely on a daytime snooze to improve their mood, alertness, and memory. Napping strengthens existing memory and also reorganizes memory and catalogs information into memory networks for easy retrieval later.
Ficca, G., Axelsson, J., Mollicone, D., Muto, V., & Vitiello, M. (2010). Naps, cognition and performance Sleep Medicine Reviews, 14 (4), 249-258
Lau, H., Tucker, M., & Fishbein, W. (2010). Daytime napping: Effects on human direct associative and relational memory Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93 (4), 554-560
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