午休有助于學習

○張軍輝

午休有助于學習

A nap will help you study more efficiently

○張軍輝

Do you have the habit of taking a nap after lunch？If so,I congratulate you;if not,I strongly advise you to have a try.Because a recent research suggests that afternoon naps aid children's learning by boosting brain power.Though you are not a preschooler anymore,I still believe about half hour`s mid-day nap will help you in study.

40 youngsters took part in the test by researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst and they found when the children were allowed a siesta after lunch they performed significantly better on visual-spatial tasks in the afternoon and the next day than when they were denied a mid-day snooze.

Following a nap,children recalled 10%more of the information they were being tested on than they did when they had been kept awake.

你有沒有午休的習慣？如果有的話，我恭喜你；如果沒有，我強烈建議你中午睡一會兒。因為近期一項研究表明：午睡可以增強大腦活力，從而促進兒童學習。盡管我們已經是初中生了，但是每天半小時左右的小睡肯定對我們的學習有幫助。

40名兒童參加了由Massachusetts Amherst大學研究人員主導的試驗。研究人員發現：午休的孩子明顯要比不午休的孩子表現要好——不只是當天下午，第二天的情況也是如此。午睡的孩子要比不午睡的伙伴能多記憶10%的信息。

Notes：

boost促進；增加；

siesta午睡，午休

visual-spatial可視空間的

snooze小睡；打盹兒

recall回想起，記起。