Sleep deprivation affects multiple distinct cognitive processes

Roger Ratcliff; Hans P A Van Dongen

doi:10.3758/PBR.16.4.742

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Sleep deprivation affects multiple distinct cognitive processes

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Sleep deprivation affects multiple distinct cognitive processes

Roger Ratcliff and Hans P A Van Dongen

Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.16(4), pp.742-751

08/2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.4.742

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/115009

PMCID: PMC2797337

PMID: 19648462

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Abstract

Decision Making

Humans

Attention

Problem Solving

Models, Psychological

Male

Reaction Time

Mathematics

Young Adult

Discrimination (Psychology)

Sleep Deprivation - psychology

Individuality

Adult

Female

Pattern Recognition, Visual

Cognition Disorders - psychology

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Sleep deprivation adversely affects the ability to perform cognitive tasks, but theories range from predicting an overall decline in cognitive functioning (because of reduced stability in attentional networks) to claiming specific deficits in executive functions. In the present study, we measured the effects of sleep deprivation on a two-choice numerosity discrimination task. A diffusion model was used to decompose accuracy and response time distributions in order to produce estimates of distinct components of cognitive processing. The model assumes that, over time, noisy evidence from the task stimulus is accumulated to one of two decision criteria and that parameters governing this process can be extracted and interpreted in terms of distinct cognitive processes. The results showed that sleep deprivation affects multiple components of cognitive processing, ranging from stimulus processing to peripheral nondecision processes. Thus, sleep deprivation appears to have wide-ranging effects: Reduced attentional arousal and impaired central processing combine to produce an overall decline in cognitive functioning.

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Title: Sleep deprivation affects multiple distinct cognitive processes
Creators: Roger Ratcliff - Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. ractcliff.22@osu.edu
Hans P A Van Dongen
Publication Details: Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.16(4), pp.742-751
Academic Unit: Medical Education and Clinical Science, Department of
Publisher: United States
Grant note: R37 MH044640-20 / NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH044640-19 / NIMH NIH HHS R37-MH44640 / NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH044640-18 / NIMH NIH HHS R01-AG17083 / NIA NIH HHS R01 AG017083 / NIA NIH HHS R37 MH044640 / NIMH NIH HHS
Identifiers: 99900547529301842
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article