Love the idea. How efficient! :)
About mental breaks, I guess this might helps creativity for the same reason meditation and naps help partial consolidation of memory traces (see below for a recent thesis showing these effects).
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/27576/Dastgheib_Mohammad_202001_MSC.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
Specifically, I would speculate that consolidation means reorganizing memories, and that reorganizing memories helps making sense of this information.
Love the idea. How efficient! :)
About mental breaks, I guess this might helps creativity for the same reason meditation and naps help partial consolidation of memory traces (see below for a recent thesis showing these effects).
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/27576/Dastgheib_Mohammad_202001_MSC.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
Specifically, I would speculate that consolidation means reorganizing memories, and that reorganizing memories helps making sense of this information.