Night owls have sharper brain function than so-called morning people, research suggests READ MORE: Sleep experts reveal what to do in the two hours before bedtime By John Ely Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline and Kate Pickles Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:05 EDT, 10 July 2024 | Updated: 19:05 EDT, 10 July 2024 e-mail View comments Getting to bed early is often considered a must for anyone who wants to be at the top of their game the following day. But a new study suggests that people who are night owls, such as Barack Obama , Winston Churchill and Robbie Williams could be sharper than morning people. The findings reveal that those who are most active and alert in the evenings appear to perform better at cognitive tests.
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, where a person did not particularly align to either of the two, ‘intermediate’. A new study suggests that people who are night owls could be sharper than morning people Famous night owls include former US president Barack Obama who reportedly went to.
