How to take a better nap
How to take a better nap
- October 24, 2024
- Sara Mednick, cog sci, GQ, Oct. 24, 2024
“When I first started doing nap research in the early 2000s, naps were totally looked down upon. It was considered lazy,” says Sara Mednick, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life. “Actually, naps are just as powerful as a night of sleep for memory and motor-learning and emotional processing.”
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