{"id":192811,"date":"2024-07-11T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/being-a-night-owl-is-associated-with-mental-sharpness-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-07-11T19:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T00:25:01","slug":"being-a-night-owl-is-associated-with-mental-sharpness-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/being-a-night-owl-is-associated-with-mental-sharpness-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Being a \u2018night owl\u2019 is associated with mental sharpness, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/being-a-night-owl-is-associated-with-mental-sharpness-study-finds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study investigating the effect of sleep on brain performance has found a link between an individual\u2019s preference for morning or evening activity and their brain function, suggesting that self-declared \u201cnight owls\u201d generally tend to have higher cognitive scores.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Imperial College London looked at data from more than 26,000 people to find out how different aspects of sleep\u2014including duration, patterns, and quality\u2014affected mental sharpness and overall cognitive ability.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from the extensive UK Biobank database, they analyzed information on U.K. adults who had completed a number of cognitive tests\u2014including whether people described themselves as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/morning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">morning<\/a> person\u201d or an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/evening\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">evening<\/a> person,\u201d referring to which time of the day they felt more alert and productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study investigating the effect of sleep on brain performance has found a link between an individual\u2019s preference for morning or evening activity and their brain function, suggesting that self-declared \u201cnight owls\u201d generally tend to have higher cognitive scores. Researchers at Imperial College London looked at data from more than 26,000 people to find out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}