Sleep and Impulse Control
<p><em>what aspect of my sleep habits most determines whether I will have sufficient willpower to resist?</em></p>
<p><em>A: the amount of sleep, in particular Deep sleep, that I got the previous night.</em></p>
<p>This is the most significant lesson I drew from a Kernel pilot study <strong>[1]</strong> which sought insights into how sleep affects aspects of cognition. Over the course of six weeks, eleven of my co-workers and I tracked our natural sleep with a wrist-worn Whoop device. In parallel, while wearing a Kernel brain interface, we completed up to eighteen, sixty minute sessions measuring our reaction times, short-term memory and impulse control.</p>
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