New research suggests your brain actually works differently in the summer than it does in the winter.
Gilles Vandewalle, who was the author of the study conducted with the University of Liege in Belgium, utilized 28 participants for her tests. These subjects were tested during different parts of the year for 4.5 days each time.
Results showed that although the subject's ability to perform tasks was unaffected by the season, that was not true in terms of neural cost. For example, summer time proved to be prime time for sustaining attention, while winter time proved more favorable for memorization.
Vandewalle and her team came to these conclusions using MRI scans of the participants' brains as they completed their tasks, according to the Washington Post.
The research is also exciting because it could lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of people with seasonal affective disorder.
The study has been published online with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.
