Sleep Deprivation Accelerates Delay-Related Loss of Visual Short-Term Memories Without Affecting Precision | Zendy

N J A van der Wee | Zendy; Christopher L. Asplund | Zendy; Michael W.L. Chee | Zendy

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Sleep Deprivation Accelerates Delay-Related Loss of Visual Short-Term Memories Without Affecting Precision

Author(s) -

N J A van der Wee,

Christopher L. Asplund,

Michael W.L. Chee

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.5665/sleep.2710

Subject(s) - sleep deprivation , audiology , psychology , recall , cued speech , sleep (system call) , cognition , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , medicine , neuroscience , computer science , operating system

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is an important measure of information processing capacity and supports many higher-order cognitive processes. We examined how sleep deprivation (SD) and maintenance duration interact to influence the number and precision of items in VSTM using an experimental design that limits the contribution of lapses at encoding.

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