A 45-minute nap can increase your memory by 5 times

Daytime naps, such as naps at noon, though lasting only 45 minutes, are enough to increase our memory by five times.

Napping helps increase memory

According to researchers from Saarland University (Germany), naps help us remember information we have learned and significantly improve our ability to recall them.

The above conclusion is drawn after the research team for volunteers learn 90 single words and 120 pairs of unrelated words, such as "milk - taxi". Some volunteers were then shown a video, while others slept.

Finally, the team conducted a test of the memory ability of all volunteers. They found that those who took a nap remembered more word pairs than those who watched videos.

Experts say, during sleep, brain activity bursts play an important role in consolidating newly learned information . Professor Axel Mecklinger, a member of the research team, added that a daytime nap, only 45 minutes to an hour, helped increase the ability to recall information learned.

Professor Mecklinger explains: "In the experiment, the memorization results of volunteers after a good nap were equivalent to before they slept, at the stage immediately after completing the learning process. In fact, the level of retention remains in the group of people who take a nap, so a nap at work or school is enough to significantly improve people's ability to learn and remember. In any learning environment, we need to think about the benefits of sleep seriously.Increasing the ability to recall information through sleep does not require us to bury our head on the pillow for a long time. A focused learning phase, followed by a short relaxing sleep is all we need. "