Daytime naps help process Unconscious Information according to new studies

It is an -old proverb - I'll sleep on it. Well, our ancestors did t say that for anything. According to recent findings, naps have w proven to be a scientifically sound vice.

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According to a new study which measures changes in people's brain activity and responses before and after a nap suggests that a period of sleep may help weighing up pros and cons or gain insight before making a challenging decision. Medical Research Council-funded study, led by University of Bristol researchers, aimed to understand wher a short period of sleep can help us process unconscious information and how this might affect behaviour and reaction time.

findings furr reveal benefits of a short bout of sleep on cognitive brain function and found that even during short bouts of sleep we process information that we are t consciously aware of. While previous evidence demonstrates that sleep helps problem-solving, resulting in enhanced cognition upon waking; it was t clear wher some form of conscious mental process was required before or during sleep to aid problem-solving.

In this study, researchers hid information by presenting it very briefly and "masking" it - so it was never consciously perceived - masked prime task. hidden information, however, was processed at a subliminal level within brain and extent to which it interferes with responses to consciously perceived information was measured.

findings suggest that even a short bout of sleep may help improve our responses and process information. refore, results here suggest a potentially sleep-dependent, task-specific enhancement of brain processing that could optimise human goal-directed behaviour. Importantly, while it is alrey kwn that process of acquiring kwledge and information recall, memory, is strengned during sleep.

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This study suggests that information acquired during wakefulness may potentially be processed in some deeper, qualitative way during sleep. study is present in Journal of Sleep Research.