To Learn Better, Sleep On It, a Scientific American podcast, notes follow.
Naps help move new info from short-term memory storage in the hippocampus to long-term storage in the cortex.
...two groups of adults who went through rigorous memory exercises. Then one group took a 90-minute snooze. In follow up tests, the nappers performed even better than their first tries. The nonnappers got worse.
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