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Kerlyne

These were our initiadlly results which concurred with those of the rest of the class. The only exception for us and for the other members of the class was Negation. Negation did not take as long as we thought, and our results in context with everyone else's suggest that negation may not take time.

Next we hypothesized that after a nap, the time it took to act would slow down and the time it took to do everything else would speed up because we were now mentally more alert though our bodies were still somewhat lethargic. Our results were as follows:

Kyree

Kerlyne

These results disprove our hypothesis. We both took longer to act and think and I took longer to read, while Kerlyne's reading score improved. Both of us negated faster as well.

This suggests that sleeping may actually increase the time it takes to perform each of these functions of course with the exception of negation. Napping, which is believed to revitalize the mind may actually slow you down instead. As for the negation, we would like to find out more about negation as a mental function including what parts of the brain are required to do it, etc. etc. Lastly, we wondered whether being the last test may have influenced the negation. It's possible that the first time around, we were tired of the tests when it time to negate, and the second time around we could have been more awake and more alert when it was time to negate.