To Nap or to Rest? The Influence of a Sixty-Minute Intervention on Verbal and Figural Convergent and Divergent Thinking
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Creativity Test Battery
2.3.1. Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT)
2.3.2. Associative Fluency Task (AFT)
2.3.3. Tower of Hanoi
2.3.4. Remote Associate Test (RAT)
2.4. EEG Recording and Sleep Scoring
2.5. Data Analysis and Hypotheses
3. Results
3.1. Analysis of Sleep Stages
3.2. Between Group Analysis—Nap versus Rest Groups
Sleepiness—SSS and Visual-Analogue Scale
3.3. Analysis of the Pooled Data
3.3.1. TTCT
3.3.2. AFT
3.3.3. Tower of Hanoi Task
3.3.4. RAT
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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W | N1 | N2 | N3 | REM | ||||||
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M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | |
Nap n | 35.9% 24 | (24.2%) | 9.2% 24 | (4.8%) | 31.8% 24 | (13.5%) | 18.3% 15 | (20.7%) | 4.8% 7 | (9.7%) |
Rest n | 93.1% 18 | (23.2%) | 1.0% 6 | (1.8%) | 0.4% 3 | (1.0%) | 0.0% 0 | (0.0%) | 0.0% 0 | (0.0%) |
Creativity Tests | Between-Subject Factor | Statistics | p Value |
---|---|---|---|
TCCT | Fluency | F(1,40) = 0.002 | 0.968 |
Originality | F(1,40) = 0.395 | 0.533 | |
AFT | Fluency | F(1,40) = 3.754 | 0.060 |
Flexibility | F(1,40) = 0.003 | 0.960 | |
Originality | F(1,40) = 2.99 | 0.091 | |
Tower of Hanoi | Nb of correct movements | F(1,40) = 0.151 | 0.699 |
Nb of wrong movements | H(1) = 1.402 | 0.236 | |
RAT | Correct answers | F(1,40) = 0.006 | 0.941 |
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Müri, R.M.; Camenzind, M.; Chiffi, K.; Stuber, I.; Eberhard-Moscicka, A.K. To Nap or to Rest? The Influence of a Sixty-Minute Intervention on Verbal and Figural Convergent and Divergent Thinking. Clin. Transl. Neurosci. 2023, 7, 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ctn7030020
Müri RM, Camenzind M, Chiffi K, Stuber I, Eberhard-Moscicka AK. To Nap or to Rest? The Influence of a Sixty-Minute Intervention on Verbal and Figural Convergent and Divergent Thinking. Clinical and Translational Neuroscience. 2023; 7(3):20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ctn7030020
Chicago/Turabian StyleMüri, René M., Magdalena Camenzind, Kathrin Chiffi, Isabel Stuber, and Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka. 2023. "To Nap or to Rest? The Influence of a Sixty-Minute Intervention on Verbal and Figural Convergent and Divergent Thinking" Clinical and Translational Neuroscience 7, no. 3: 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/ctn7030020