The researchers told New Scientist magazine: "Traditionally, time devoted to daytime napping has been considered counterproductive ."
研究人員在接受《新科學家》雜志采訪時說:"人們一直認為白天小睡起不到什么積極作用。"
But they added that it now seemed that sleep was "an important mechanism for memory formation".
但是,現在看來,睡眠"是形成記憶的一個重要途徑"。
The study was published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, the magazine said.
據《新科學家》雜志介紹,此項研究結果發表在《學習和記憶神經生物學》上。