Sleep Loss and Its Effects on PerformanceThe effects of sleep loss on human task performance are discussed under total, partial, and selective deprivations of sleep. Some of the frequently used psychological tasks in studies of total sleep loss are described in sufficient detail so that experimenters could choose, on the basis of materials presented in this monograph, adequate tasks to fit their experimental objectives. Factors which play critical roles in determining the degree of task sensitivity to total sleep loss are listed. Effects of shortened hours of sleep on human task performance are discussed. Effects of selected sleep deprivation on performance are also commented upon. The commentary is followed by a bibliography on sleep deprivation with author and subject indices. |
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Agnew Amer amphetamine Arch auditory vigilance behavioral Clin Continuous Performance Task Cyc./Sec Dement deprivation of sleep dreaming effects of loss effects of sleep effects of total Electroenceph Electroencephalographic experimental insomnia fatigue Figure Group N hallucination hours of sleep hours of total human insomnia Jouvet Kales Kleitman Kollar lack of sleep loss of sleep loss of total loss on performance Lubin Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Neurol Neurophysiol Neuropsychiatric Research Unit NREM paradoxical sleep partial sleep deprivation partial sleep loss Physiol physiological polygraphic prolonged sleep deprivation Psychiat Psychol psychological rapid eye movement REM deprivation REM sleep response schizophrenia selective sleep deprivation selective sleep stage sensitivity to total serial reaction sleep cycle sleep debt Sleep patterns sleep stage deprivation sleep stages slow wave sleep Stage REM stages of sleep task performance total sleep deprivation total sleep loss tracking errors tracking task visual Webb Wilkinson