EFFECTS OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND PROLONGED DRIVING ON A SUBSIDIARY AUDITORY REATION TIME

ELEVEN SUBJECTS WERE EMPLOYED IN AN EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT ON A SUBSIDIARY AUDITORY REACTION TIME (RT) OF DIFFERENT FACTORS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL TO 3 HR OF CAR DRIVING. THE CONDITIONS WERE: A--DRIVING IN DAYLIGHT, B--DRIVING IN DARKNESS, C--DRIVING AFTER ONE NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP. THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OF RT OVER THE DRIVING DURATION, BUT THERE WERE NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CONDITIONS. A COMPARISON WITH TWO OTHER EXPERIMENTS IN THE SAME SERIES POINT TO THE APPARENT SIGNIFICANCE OF MONOTONY OF DRIVING AS A CASUAL FACTOR IN DRIVING-FATIGUE ACCIDENTS. EVIDENCE WAS PRESENTED WHICH SUGGESTS AN INADEQUACY OF THE TEST-DRIVING-RETEST DESIGN IN FATIGUE AND DRIVING STUDIES. AN INTERSUBJECT COMPARISON POINTS TO BOTH VULNERABILITY TO MONOTONY AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION AS FACTORS IN THE INTERSUBJECT VARIABILITY IN SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENTS. /AA&P/

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00014575
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 2, No 4, PP 335-341, 1 FIG, 2 TAB, REFS
• Authors:
  • Lisper, H O
  • Dureman, I
  • ERICSSON, S
  • Karlsson, N G
• Publication Date: 1971-3

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drivers; Driving; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Hearing loss; Sleep; Time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223552
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-009861
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 1 1986 12:00AM