<p>"A report in the June 2009 <a href="http://www.pnas.org/">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a> showed that a nap with REM (or “dream”) sleep <strong>improves people’s ability to integrate unassociated information for creative problem solving</strong>, and study after study has shown that sleep boosts memory. If you memorize a list of words and then take a nap, <strong>you’ll remember more words than you would without sleeping first</strong>. Even micronaps of six minutes—not including the time it takes to fall asleep, which is about five minutes if you’re really tired—make a difference."</p>
<p>(<a href="http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/web/2009/health/simplest-way-to-reboot-your-brain">Permalink to article is here</a>.)</p>
2009-09-27T10:37:54-07:00
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Napping Boosts Memory
2009-11-03T18:00:59-08:00