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A Further Analysis of Age and Sleep Deprivation Effects
Author(s) -
Webb Wilse B.
Publication year - 1985
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.1469-8986.1985.tb01579.x
Subject(s) - psychology , persistence (discontinuity) , sleep deprivation , sleep (system call) , audiology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , operating system , geotechnical engineering , engineering
Subjective, persistence/attention, precision, and cognitively demanding measures were obtained across two nights' sleep deprivation to compare the performance of 50–59 and 18–22 yr old men. The younger subjects had the larger subjective decrements while the older subjects had the larger decrements on the persistence tasks. The results were mixed on the precision and cognitively demanding tasks.