Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Dissociated Components of Executive Functioning
Author(s) -
Adrienne M. Tucker,
Paul Whitney,
Gregory Belenky,
John M. Hinson,
Hans P. A. Van Dongen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/33.1.47
Subject(s) - sleep deprivation , psychology , sleep (system call) , executive functions , privation , neuroscience , audiology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , cognition , computer science , operating system
We studied the effects of sleep deprivation on executive functions using a task battery which included a modified Sternberg task, a probed recall task, and a phonemic verbal fluency task. These tasks were selected because they allow dissociation of some important executive processes from non-executive components of cognition.
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