Maybe the early bird gets the worm, but the night owl gets the high test scores.
The world isn’t really built for people like us, and self-declared night owls often have to adjust to the standard, there’s one thing us night owls have going for us, and it’s that we tend to have higherlooked at data from over 26,000 people to find out how different aspects of sleep, including durations, patterns and quality, impacted mental sharpness and overall cognitive ability.
Imperial College London added: “Evening types, or owls, scored about 13.5% higher than morning types in one group and 7.5% higher than morning types in another group. “Intermediate sleepers – a mixture of both- also did better, scoring around 10.6% and 6.3% higher than morning types in the two groups. These differences were highly significant, meaning they are very unlikely to be due to chance.”
However, before you get too smug, Co-study leader Professor Daqing Ma from the Imperial’s Department of Surgery and Cancer, said: “We’ve found thathas a direct effect on brain function, and we believe that proactively managing sleep patterns is really important for boosting, and safeguarding, the way our brains work.
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