When the temperature rises, you get sweaty and sticky. But hot weather can harm more than your comfort. During a heat wave, even healthy young adults can lose their ability to think at their best.
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| Warmer days have a measurable impact on our ability to think clearly |
Jose Guillermo Cedeño-Laurent of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studied 44 Boston-area college students. Some of the students lived in air-conditioned dorms, and some did not.
Each morning, he tested the students’ cognitive speed and working memory. And he found that as it got hotter, the students without A/C fared worse on the tests.
Read the Yale Climate Connections story by Diana Madson - “Heat seems to make us stupider.”
