Sleep Deprivation and Performance: The Optimum Use of Limited Sleep Periods.

Abstract

The performance of three groups of young adult subjects has been measured across a 72 hour period. A computer programmed battery of tests was used which included test established as sensitive to sleep loss (auditory vigilance, addition and subjective scales), and a cognitive battery (memory tasks, anagrams, word detection, visual search, line judgements with various feedbacks, object usage, reasoning, digit symbols). The experimental variable was the placement of four hours of sleep opportunities. The control group had no sleep, one experimental group slept from 10-12 PM prior to 'night' two and three (preparatory sleep) and one slept from 8 to 10 AM after 'nights' two and three (recovery sleep). This report presents preliminary analysis of the date as well as data analysis completed on earlier continuous peformance measures. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA126934

Entities

People

  • Wilse B. Webb

Organizations

  • University of Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Biomedical Research
  • Computers
  • Covariance
  • Data Analysis
  • Deprivation
  • Detection
  • Errors
  • Feedback
  • Information Processing
  • Judgment
  • Management Personnel
  • Motivation
  • Noise
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Sleep Deprivation

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Circadian Sleep-Wake Regulation and Chronobiology
  • Systems Analysis and Design