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Maximizing Sensitivity of the Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT) to Sleep Loss

Author(s) -

Mathias Basner,

David F. Dinges

Publication year - 2011

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/34.5.581

Subject(s) - vigilance (psychology) , psychomotor vigilance task , psychomotor learning , alertness , sleep loss , audiology , psychology , sleep deprivation , multiple sleep latency test , medicine , sleep disorder , insomnia , cognition , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , excessive daytime sleepiness

The psychomotor vigilance test (PVT) is among the most widely used measures of behavioral alertness, but there is large variation among published studies in PVT performance outcomes and test durations. To promote standardization of the PVT and increase its sensitivity and specificity to sleep loss, we determined PVT metrics and task durations that optimally discriminated sleep deprived subjects from alert subjects.

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