Power naps might be more powerful than previously thought Forget
the book under your pillow and studying through osmosis —
experts agree a simple good night’s sleep can help deliver that
“A” on tomorrow’s test. Researchers at the University of Iowa,
and across the nation, are now taking the science a step further
and investigating the power of naps. “A lot of our long-term
coding of memories are encoded in sleep,” said Mark Dyken, the
director of the UI Hospitals and Clinics Sleep Disorders Center.
“Maybe the power nap will allow them to encode the data better.”
Experts have proven that sleep allows the brain to form
connections and make memories, and a lack of sleep inhibits
memory formation. In other words, experts recommend getting a
good night’s rest before a big test. At this year's Society for
Neuroscience conference in New Orleans, scientists presented
more research to back that up. “Sleep plays an important role in
learning and memory processing,” according to the abstract from
Human Long-Term Memory: