A 10-minute nap is better than a half-hour snooze at improving work performance, according to new Australian sleep research. Associate Professor Leon Lack and postgraduate student Amber Tietzel studied the effect of varying nap lengths in the School of Psychology Sleep Laboratory at Flinders University in Adelaide. They conclude that 10 minutes is the most effective nap length for improving performance for up to 3 hours afterward. “We were testing the notion of whether power naps, as they’re known in the United States, are really as effective as they are claimed to be,” Lack told Reuters Health. He explained that participants in the study underwent a series of performance tests […]
