Word: mednick
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...napping the new coffee break? Sleep experts say that day is getting closer for farsighted businesses. "I'm seeing a surge in bosses' saying, 'I want to bring this into my business,'" says Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the Salk Institute. "Usually the boss is a napper...
...then thought that if nocturnal sleep helps with learning maybe midday sleep would help boost performance that was deteriorating, which is exactly what happened,” said Mednick...
According to Mednick, the group that received no sleep performed progressively worse over the course of the day, taking up to 50 percent longer to perform the task than they had initially...
...Mednick said the finding could have real-world applications...
...think it is important to connect the deterioration we see in our task with real world repetitive jobs which may cause burn-out similar to the kind we have reported for a very simple visual task,” said Mednick...