Be caught napping: you're doing more than resting your eyes
Pierre Maquet2, Philippe Peigneux2, Steven Laureys2
& Carlyle Smith1
1
Carlyle Smith is in the Department of Psychology, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.
2
The other authors are at the Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. maquet@pet.crc.ulg.ac.be
Sleep is suggested to repair fatigue or to enhance memory consolidation. A new paper shows that the beneficial effect of sleep is specific to the task and the brain regions engaged by it.
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