Sentence examples for following naps from inspiring English sources

All ten novice meditators improved their PVT reaction times immediately following periods of meditation, and all but one got worse immediately following naps.

In light of the results following naps and control activities, the improvement post-meditation appears even greater, since the improvement occurs against the normal decline.

For example, meditation, even in the novice group, appeared to help maintain PVT performance across the entire 10 minute test periods (in the first post-test but not the one in the second hour), whereas performance declined following nap or control periods within these single 10 minute tests.

Numerous studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects on behavioral performance of diurnal naps following sleep restriction or sleep deprivation [ 21- 24].

While dreams rarely involve episodic replay of waking memories (Fosse et al. 2003), there is preliminary evidence suggesting that performance in a virtual navigation task improves following daytime naps, and that the effect is especially strong in subjects who report task-related mentation (Wamsley & Stickgold 2009, 2010; Wamsley et al. 2010).

Clearly their "expectation" following the naps did not improve their performance substantially (since they consistently did worse than their pre-test).

Underlying circadian processes have been found to influence the benefits achieved following a nap, with the greatest restorative effects revealed if naps are taken on a regular basis in the afternoon when the most severe sleepiness and pressure for sleep is likely to occur [ 10, 17].

The slower times following a nap were probably due to sleep inertia as shown previously[ 18].

Participants felt less sleepy, more vigorous and showed improved cognitive performance for as long as 155 minutes following the nap.

The number of sleep spindles and sigma power (13.5 15 Hz) significantly predicted motor performance following the nap, for habitual nappers only.

Although neutral memory was not enhanced following the nap, we are not suggesting that nonemotional declarative memories do not benefit from sleep.