According to a new study, the more you yawn, the smarter you are.
Do not store the avocado like this: it is dangerous Gira turning you over, the yawn, somewhere, clicks when you least expect it. But never consider it a symptom of boredom! Now science supports the thesis that, indeed, theor long yawn beyond measure is a sign of intelligence. To say it is a study conducted at the State University of New York at Oneonta and published in Biology Letters, according to which the longer one indulges in yawning, the larger one's brain, capable of remarkable performance. READ also: CAN SLEEPING LITTLE REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN? The reason would be that the duration of a yawn would be related to the number of neurons present in the outer brain layer. The more you yawn the more there are. The researchers drew on certain data: duration of the yawn, its "width" and the size of the brains of some animals and humans. They analyzed about 200 videos (here you find the list) timing the yawns of 24 different species, including dogs, cats, hedgehogs, possums, foxes, squirrels and a variety of primates, including humans, and concluded that yawn "size" correlates not with jaw size but with brain size .
Then they compared the "time" of each animal's yawn with data on the average weight of the brain and the number of cortical neurons for its species. The result is that the longer the yawn, the larger the brain, and the stronger correlation was between the duration of the yawn and the complexity of the brain, judged by the number of neurons. READ also: THRILLS OF COLD CONTAGIOUS LIKE CARROWS In practice, the tests showed that pthe more the species is “evolved” and intelligent, the greater the yawn it is able to produce.
And if there are differences between how individuals of the same species yawn, it would be due to the amount of gray matter present in different brains, but scholars say that more studies will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.
Meanwhile, try to figure out if your now yawning colleague needs more coffee or is just stretching his brain.
Germana Carillo
