Regular naps are 'key to learning'

Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by minthd on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:29AM (#8878817)

Interesting. What about adult learning, do naps help with learning, and by how much?

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by ivanche on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @06:40AM (#8879167)

Absolutely! Mandatory reading (very long but VERY worth) "Good sleep, good learning, good life" [1] by Dr Piotr Wozniak

[1] http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by snowwrestler on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:41PM (#8881312)

The things I've read suggest that for adults adequate sleep is the key, not necessarily when you get it. A person who gets as much sleep as they need at night might not benefit from a nap; whereas a person who does not, would.

Babies grow more rapidly than adults, so everything happens on a faster schedule. They eat proportionally more food, and more frequently, excrete proportionally more, sleep longer and more frequently, etc.

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by jacalata on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:56AM (#8878880)

They seem to: http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/beautiful-minds/201002/tak...

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Re:Regular naps are 'key to learning' by minthd on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:18AM (#8879550)

Original paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093247/

"These effects were specific to episodic learning, with no between-session change expressed in procedural motor-skill learning, or in measures of alertness or reaction time"

The memory relevant for developers is mostly procedural, i.e conceptual memory, i believe. So napping might not be useful(or further research needed).

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