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'Power naps' in job description?
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020527-03
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'Power naps' — brief periods of daytime sleep lasting an hour or less — improve alertness, productivity and mood, but their effect on previously learned information has been unclear. In 28 May Advanced Online Nature Neuroscience, Sara Mednick and colleagues from Harvard University, show that a short 60 minutes daytime nap may contribute to the consolidation of learning and improve performance of visual discrimination tasks (DOI:10.1038/nn864).
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