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Night owls' cognitive function 'superior' to early risers, study suggests

Research on 26,000 people found those who stay up late scored better on intelligence, reasoning and memory tests

It turns out that staying up late could be good for our brain power as research suggests that people who identify as night owls could be sharper than those who go to bed early. Artists, authors and musicians known to be night owls include Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Joyce, Kanye West and Lady Gaga. Jessica Chelekis, a senior lecturer insustainability global value chains and sleep expert at Brunel University London, said there were “important limitations” to the study as the research did not account for education attainment, or include the time of day the cognitive tests were conducted in the results.

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