Ken Paller

James Padilla Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University; senior author

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Study finds humans react faster when exhaling than inhaling

Leading NIH-funded follow-up research on sleep

Northwestern University neuroscientists have found that humans react faster when exhaling than when inhaling. In a sustained-attention test with 35 adults, responses during exhalation were on average 41 milliseconds quicker than during inhalation — about 1/25th of a second.

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