The impact of sleep loss on sustained and transient attention: An EEG study

doi:10.1111/jsr.61_12912

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Highlights

Sleep and attention Healthy sleep habits are imperative to maintaining physical and psychological health and wellbeing (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2014; Hirshkowitz et al, 2015), while sleep loss is associated with physical and mental health problems (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
The hypothesis that (i) performance on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) would be impaired during sleep restriction was supported, the hypothesis that (ii) attentional blink (AB) performance would be impaired during sleep restriction was not supported, as accuracy appeared to be robust to the impact of sleep restriction
Based on the available literature, it was anticipated that sleepiness would correlate negatively with global alpha and positively with central frontal theta (Strijkstra et al, 2003), whereas delta and theta spectral power were expected to increase with sleep loss (Hoedlmoser et al, 2011)

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Sleep and attention Healthy sleep habits are imperative to maintaining physical and psychological health and wellbeing (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2014; Hirshkowitz et al, 2015), while sleep loss is associated with physical and mental health problems (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

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