Sleep and Performance Research Center
Abstract
The key deliverable in this award s statement of work is to Develop a new program at Washington State University the Spokane Sleep Research Initiative to focus on the effects of sleep and sleep loss on human performance. As the Spokane Sleep Research Initiative grew, it was renamed the Sleep and Performance Research Center (SPRC). Two major studies, one demonstrating in a laboratory study of human volunteers that split sleep sustains performance better than consolidated sleep if the consolidated sleep is during the day but worse than consolidated sleep if the consolidated sleep is in the night, and the other demonstrating in a field study that commercial bus drivers sleep adequate amounts on both off duty days, work a 40-50 hour work week and work on average a 10 hour work day where published during the interval covered by this final addendum (05/01/2012-04/30/2013). Other studies were published by SPRC core faculty during the same period concerned with the neurobiology of sleep, the behavioral consequences of sleep loss, and the use of mathematical models in fatigue risk management. During the interval covered by this final addendum (05/01/2012-04/30/2013) the Sleep and Performance Research Center 11 core faculty members produced 54 publications (see References)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA580963
Entities
People
- Gregory Belenky
Organizations
- Washington State University Spokane