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Sleepless night, restless mind: Effects of sleep deprivation on mind wandering.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Poh, Jia-Hou Chong, Pearlynne L. H. Chee, Michael W. L. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Sleep deprivation can result in degradation of sustained attention through increased distraction by task-irrelevant exogenous stimuli. However, attentional failures in the sleep-deprived state could also be a result of task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs, or mind wandering). Here, well-rested and sleep-deprived participants performed a visual search task under high and low perceptual load conditions. Thought probes were administered at irregular intervals to gauge the frequency of TUTs and level of meta-awareness of mind wandering. Despite sleep-deprived participants reporting more TUTs, they also reported less awareness of TUTs. Although the frequency of TUTs decreased in the high load condition in well-rested participants, they were equally frequent across low and high perceptual load conditions in sleep-deprived participants. Together, these findings suggest that sleep deprivation can result in a loss of ability to allocate attentional resources according to task demands consistent with diminished executive control. This may have been exacerbated by reduced meta-awareness. (PsycINFO Database Record |
| Starting Page | 1312 |
| Ending Page | 1318 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1037/xge0000207 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cogneuro-lab.org/UserFiles/Publication/SleeplessNight,RestlessMind-EffectsofSleepDeprivationonMindWandering.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 27359128 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000207 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 145 |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of experimental psychology. General |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
