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Sleep Deprivation and Vigilant Attention
Abstract
Sleep deprivation severely compromises the ability of human beings to respond to stimuli in a timely fashion. These deficits have been attributed in large part to failures of vigilant attention, which many theorists believe forms the bedrock of the other more complex components of cognition. One of the leading paradigms used as an assay of vigilant attention is the psychomotor vigilance test (PVT), a high signal-load reaction-time test that is extremely sensitive to sleep deprivation. Over the last twenty years, four dominant findings have emerged from the use of this paradigm. First, sleep deprivation results in an overall slowing of responses. Second, sleep deprivation increases the propensity of individuals to lapse for lengthy periods (>500 ms), as well as make errors of commission. Third, sleep deprivation enhances the time-on-task effect within each test bout. Finally, PVT results during extended periods of wakefulness reveal the presence of interacting circadian and homeostatic sleep drives. A theme that links these findings is the interplay of "top-down" and "bottom-up" attention in producing the unstable and unpredictable patterns of behavior that are the hallmark of the sleep-deprived state.
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“These studies demonstrated that sleep restriction induced decreased vigilant attention, as measured by the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT),25 most prominently during circadian night, even with short prior wake duration.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lim, J., & Dinges, D. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dinges, David F.
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-05
- Volume
- 1129
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 305-322
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W2036353017
- Cited by
- 1,213
- References
- 156
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- FWCI
- 4.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Keywords
- sleep deprivation, vigilant attention, psychomotor vigilance test, reaction time, response slowing, attentional lapses, commission errors, time-on-task effects, circadian rhythm, homeostatic sleep drive, top-down and bottom-up attention, sustained attention
- MeSH terms
- Central Nervous System Stimulants, Attention, Humans, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Sleep Deprivation
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