{"id":2058,"date":"2025-02-11T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/afternoon-naps-make-people-better-at-solving-puzzles\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:04:04","slug":"afternoon-naps-make-people-better-at-solving-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/afternoon-naps-make-people-better-at-solving-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon naps make people better at solving puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-11 15:04:04<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>An afternoon nap increases brain power.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers tested 58 people under the age of 30 on their ability to solve puzzles, with some instructed to have a two-hour snooze before taking on the task.<BR><br \/>\nIt was discovered that the group who had a nap were better at solving problems that they had been unable to figure out beforehand while those who remained awake were just as confused as before.<BR><br \/>\nExperts say that the puzzle-solving boost comes from an improvement in analogical transfer &#8211; a person&#8217;s ability to detect solutions &#8211; when they are asleep.<BR><br \/>\nThe deep sleep stage, in which dreaming and heightened brain activity are commonplace, can help individuals integrate and consolidate complex information.<BR><br \/>\nTexas State University boffin Dr. Carmen Westerberg claims that the study could make the case for naps to beat mental block for those at work.<BR><br \/>\nShe said: &#8220;If you have a difficult problem you cannot solve, processes that occur while you are sleeping may give you insights that could help to solve the problem.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-11 15:04:04 An afternoon nap increases brain power. Researchers tested 58 people under the age of 30 on their ability to solve puzzles, with some instructed to have a two-hour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}