Benefits of Sleeping for Memorization

Researchers at a City College of New York sleep lab have found that a 45-minute daytime nap can help a person remember facts.
The brain files newly acquired memories into two main compartments. Those relating to skills go into our procedural memory compartment while those concerning facts, such as the stuff we learn from books, documentaries, and from interacting with other people, end up in our declarative memory compartment.
The experiment, led by Dr. Matthew Tucker, a Harvard Medical School fellow, tested 33 people on their declarative memory capability to remember unrelated word pairs, mazes, and complex line drawings.
The volunteers who took a 45-minute nap at the start of the 3-hour break between memorizing and testing performed much better than those who stayed in the lab and watched TV.



p.s. I am so sleepy Zzz -_-