Letting your children take a quick nap during study hours could help them recall faster what they studied and make relearning easy, leading them to remember the exercises even six months later, researchers say.
They hypothesised that sleeping in between study sessions might make the relearning process more efficient, reducing the effort needed to commit information to memory.
"Our results suggest that interleaving sleep between practice sessions leads to a two-fold advantage, reducing the time spent relearning and ensuring a much better long-term retention than practice alone," explained psychological scientist Stephanie Mazza from University of Lyon in France.
