THE EFFECTS OF TASK DURATION AND WORK-SESSION LOCATION ON PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION INDUCED BY SLEEP LOSS AND SUSTAINED COGNITIVE WORK
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence and Civil Inst of Environmental Medicine, Downsview ONT (CAN)
- Abstract
- Studies attempting to estimate the degree of performance degradation resulting from sleep loss typically use relatively long-duration tasks that are distinctly separate from ongoing activities. Since long-duration tasks are not practical for assessing the performance degradation induced by sleep loss in field settings, this study was designed to examine whether the results of short-duration (1-min) tasks were markedly different from those of long-duration (10-min) tasks with respect to detecting performance changes during a 54-h period of sleep loss and sustained cognitive work. Performance changes also were examined as a function of the location of tasks within work sessions by comparing performance of 1-min tasks that were placed within work sessions with those tasks that immediately followed short rest periods.
- Report Number
- DCIEM-85-P-45 — Research Paper
- Date of publication
- 01 Jan 1985
- Number of Pages
- 12
- Reprinted from
- Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, vol 17, no 6, 1985, p 592-603
- DSTKIM No
- 86-01956
- CANDIS No
- 96678
- Format(s):
- Hardcopy;Originator's fiche received by DSIS
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