PEBL Technical Report #2012-06
Cognitive Performance as a function of patterns of sleep
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AuthorsAbstractThe purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of sleep
pattern variation (e.g., sleeping the same amount of hours each night
versus sleeping a different number of hours each night) and chronic
sleep deprivation on cognitive functioning. A sample of 74
undergraduates from a small private college was asked to keep a daily
sleep log for one week. At the end of the week, they performed a
series of cognitive computer tasks measuring their abilities of sustain
attention and memory. A moderate negative relationship was found
between sleep pattern and memory among chronically sleep deprived
individuals indicating that sleep deprived individuals who get erratic
sleep will suffer short term memory deficits.
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How to cite:| Ulrich, N. J. (2012). Cognitive performance as a function of patterns of sleep. PEBL Technical Report
Series [On-line], #2011-01. Retrieved from
http://sites.google.com/site/pebltechnicalreports/home/2012/pebl-technical-report-2012-06. |
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