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Hitting the snooze button each morning could be worth the extra few minutes in bed, according to a new sleep loss study published Wednesday, which found that even though people who use the snooze button while begrudgingly waking up are more likely to be drowsy, it could still have benefits, according to at least one researcher.
According to the study, people who use the snooze button spend an average of 22 minutes per day snoozing but lose an average of 13 minutes of sleep on workdays compared to people who opt out of using the snooze button—researchers did not find a significant difference in sleep loss on days off work. In a follow-up three-night laboratory study involving 31 participants, researchers also measured participants’ sleepiness, cortisol levels, mood and performance on a series of mathematical and memory-based cognitive tests after waking up.
Surprisingly, participants who snoozed exhibited improved memory functioning and solved simple addition questions faster in cognitive tests than participants who did not use the snooze button, though those improvements only held true when measured immediately after participants woke up, and leveled off when measured again 40 minutes later.Despite the slight loss of sleep from hitting the snooze button, Stockholm University Dr.
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