SLEEP DEPRIVATION EFFECTS ON ACCURACY AND SPEED OF RESPONSE SELECTION AND EXECUTION

Several subjects performed a subject-paced step-tracking task after zero, one and two nights without sleep. Their performance compared to performance when following a similar regime with normal sleep showed no change in accuracy but a progressive reduction in speed. Movement times increased with sleep loss and reaction times increased to an amount dependent on signal probability.

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  • Authors:
    • Buck, L
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  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: 8 p.

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  • Accession Number: 00050487
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: National Research Council of Canada
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Tech. Rpt.
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jan 4 1974 12:00AM