Nachtmenschen sind klüger und reicher als Frühaufsteher
Endlich mal eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung, die auch mir als chronischen Nachtmenschen das schlechte Gewissen nimmt:
For the latest study, scientists pitted morning larks against night owls in a task designed to measure their reaction and attention times.
During the experiment, the volunteers got up and went to bed at their usual times, with the larks tending to turn in four hours earlier than the owls.
Both did similarly well at the task shortly after getting up. But ten hours into their day, it was the night owls that shone, being both quicker and more alert at the task, the journal Science reports.
Despite being awake for the same length of time, the larks felt sleepier, with scans showing that the parts of their brains linked to attention were less active.
