Neurobehavioral performance in young adults living on a 28-h day for 6 weeks

Jung Hie Lee, Wei Wang, Edward J Silva, AnneMarie Chang, Karine D Scheuermaier, Sean Cain, Jeanne F Duffy

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Abstract

Performance on many cognitive tasks varies with time awake and with circadian phase, and the forced desynchrony (FD) protocol can be used to separate these influences on performance. Some performance tasks show practice effects, whereas the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) has been reported not to show such effects. We aimed to compare performance on the PVT and on an addition test (ADD) across a 6-week FD study, to determine whether practice effects were present and to analyze the circadian and wake-dependent modulation of the 2 measures.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)905 - 913
Number of pages9
JournalSleep
Volume32
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

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