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Age, Sleep Deprivation, and Performance
Author(s) -
Webb Wilse B.,
Levy C. Michael
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1982.tb02561.x
Subject(s) - sleep deprivation , psychology , sleep (system call) , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , privation , persistence (discontinuity) , cognition , audiology , developmental psychology , period (music) , sleep debt , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , physics , geotechnical engineering , computer science , acoustics , engineering , operating system
ABSTRACT Men 18–22 and 40–49 yrs old were repeatedly given a battery of monitoring, persistence, and cognitive tasks over an extended period of sleep deprivation. The older subjects, who generally exhibited superior performance, were also more affected by the acute deprivation of sleep.