A new study has found that verbal intelligence may be more prominent in early-birds than night-owls, depending on sleeping patterns and natural inclinations.
The study comes as people prepare to roll their clocks back an hour to Standard Time, and it challenges modern research that suggests that those who stay up late have stronger cognitive abilities in problem solving, abstract reasoning and working memory.
“Once you account for key factors including bedtime and age,” he said in a press release, “we found that morning types tend to have superior verbal ability. This outcome was surprising to us and signals this is much more complicated than anyone thought before.
Fogel warns that catering schedules, which are incompatible with individuals’ chronotypes, may limit cognitive potential. “For example, math and science classes are normally scheduled early in the day because whatever morning tendencies they have will serve them well. But the AM is not when they are at their best due to their evening type tendencies. Ultimately, they are disadvantaged because the type of schedule imposed on them is basically fighting against their biological clock every day.”
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