Research Hit: When Hitting Snooze Can Improve Brain Performance

Snoozing can improve cognitive performance but you still feel sleepy!

Are you sure - I’ve heard the opposite advice - don’t use the snooze button and get straight out of bed!

Yes, I’ve seen that advice too - and now it seems, according to a piece of research published a few days ago, not to be the case.

Maybe the advice was written by a morning person, a lark?

Could be, and that is another interesting thought: those larks who get up bright and early may well think that this is the best thing to do - just jump out of bed.

This research by Tina Sundelin et al. of Stockholm University, first analysed data from 1’700 people and 69% said they at least sometimes used the snooze button or set multiple alarms.

Only 69%?!

Well, that is a lot, or not, depending on your view - I’m more of an owl trying to become a lark and do regularly hit the snooze button. I would have assumed that just about everybody does to a degree - 31% apparently not.

And snoozing is good for you then?