Naptime makes you smarter
Summary
- Sleeping increases your IQ
Details
- In Japan, after a high school set up a 10 minute nap, the number of students who qualified for university doubled.
- Sleep improves rote learning, long term memory and even cognitive capacity.
References
Quotes
- After Fukuoka Prefectural Meizen High School set up a ten-minute naptime, the number of students who got into the University of Tokyo doubled. According to a study at Université de Lyon, students who took naps between rote learning learned at faster speeds, and enhanced their long-term memory. In a NASA study, cognitive capacities like memory and attentiveness improved by 34 percent after subjects took twenty-six-minute naps.