"Added to that, you might have heard the productivity gurus preaching that to get ahead in life, you should do things like rise earlier in the morning and get your most important work done early in the day.

None of this comes easy to night owls. However, there are things you can do to help if your habits veer towards the nocturnal.

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And if you are a night owl, you'll be pleasantly surprised to hear the findings from a huge new British study involving data from two cohorts featuring tens of thousands of people.

Led by researchers at Imperial College in London, the results showed that people with a night owl chronotype had "superior" cognitive function compared with their early-rising counterparts.

As the researchers put it: "Morning types consistently showed the lowest cognitive scores in both cohorts, with scores improving for intermediate types and reaching higher levels for evening types".

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The Video report from PBS