Want to learn a new skill? Take some short breaks. In a study of healthy volunteers, researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest. The results highlight the critically important role rest may play in learning. Source 9s.
I always thought that taking short breaks was beneficial to both learning and performance in general. Like everything else the mind also has it's limits and it needs time to process what it just received after a certain period of time.