Night owls have superior brain function, say experts
The Independent|July 11, 2024
People who are night owls could be sharper than morning people, a new study suggests. Those who are most active and alert in the evenings appear to perform better at cognitive tests.
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Night owls have superior brain function, say experts

Researchers, led by academics from Imperial College London, said that various studies have examined sleep and cognitive abilities – in particular the length that someone sleeps – but little is known about sleep patterns, or chronotypes, and cognition.

So they examined data on thousands of people taking part in the UK Biobank study to examine the “intricate relationships” between sleep duration, quality and chronotype – categorised in the study as “morningness”, “eveningness” or “intermediate” – where a person did not particularly align to either of the two.

People taking part in the study underwent tests which examined their intelligence, reasoning skills, reaction times and memory.

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