Effects of a Daytime Nap on Primed and Repeated Remote Associates Tests and Relations with Divergent Creativity

Figures & data

TABLE 1 Total Sleep Time (TST), Range of TST, Slow Wave Sleep and REM Sleep; Means (Minutes) and Standard Deviations

	Sleep (n= 28)	REM (n= 20)	No-REM (n= 8)
Total Sleep Time	80.66	91.83	52.56
SD	28.37	17.24	32.25
Range of TST	8–116.5	61–116.5	8–92
SWS	14.01	15.49	10.50
SD	12.47	11.15	15.58
REM	10.90	15.20	.00
SD	10.77	9.76	.00

TABLE 2 Baseline RAT, Baseline RAT Improvement, Primed RAT, and Primed RAT Improvement; Means and Standard Deviations

	Total (n= 42)	REM (n= 20)	No-REM (n= 8)	Rest (n= 14)
Baseline RAT	5.07	5.15	5.00	5.00
SD	1.63	1.95	1.31	1.36
Improvement	1.40	2.20	1.25	0.36
SD	1.80	2.12	1.28	0.75
Primed RAT	6.64	7.10	6.38	6.14
SD	2.26	2.53	1.85	2.07
Improvement	1.57	1.95	1.38	1.14
SD	2.19	2.54	1.92	1.79