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Sleep deprivation and reading comprehension.

Wilse B. Webb
- 01 Apr 1986 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 2, pp 169-172
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Ten older subjects (50-60 years of age) took a college level reading comprehension test after two nights without sleep, and their performance was compared with performance on an alternate form given prior to sleep deprivation.
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This article is published in Biological Psychology.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleep deprivation & Reading comprehension.

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The impact of sleep deprivation on decision making: a review

TL;DR: SD presents particular difficulties for sleep-deprived decision makers who require these latter skills during emergency situations, as well as decision-making models developed outside SD, as does a neuropsychological explanation of sleep function.
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Examining the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Workplace Deviance: A Self-Regulatory Perspective

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate psychological and neurocognitive perspectives to examine the effects of sleep deprivation on workplace deviance and find that sleep deprivation is correlated with workplace deviant behavior.
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Sleep, cognition, and normal aging: integrating a half century of multidisciplinary research.

TL;DR: The literature is interpreted as suggesting that maintaining good sleep quality, at least in young adulthood and middle age, promotes better cognitive functioning and serves to protect against age-related cognitive declines.
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Sleep Loss and “Divergent” Thinking Ability

TL;DR: It is found that 1 night of sleep loss can affect divergent thinking, and the outcome for convergent thinking tasks, which are more resilient to short-term sleep loss, is more resilient than that for convergence thinking tasks.
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Cognitive deterioration and changes of P300 during total sleep deprivation.

TL;DR: The P300 changes that occur during sleep deprivation are a reflection of the decrement in vigilance, which prolongs reaction time, which suggests that higher complex cognitive function might be not affected by 38 h of total sleep deprivation.
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Age, sleep deprivation, and performance

TL;DR: Men 18–22 and 40–49 yrs old were repeatedly given a battery of monitoring, persistence, and cognitive tasks over an extended period of sleep deprivation, with the older subjects more affected by the acute deprivation of sleep.
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A further analysis of age and sleep deprivation effects.

TL;DR: The younger subjects have the larger subjective decrements while the older subjects had the larger decrements on the persistence tasks and the results were mixed on the precision and cognitively demanding tasks.
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What are the effects of sleep deprivation on reading comprehension?

The effects of sleep deprivation on reading comprehension were examined in older subjects. While their reading rate and comprehension were not significantly reduced, only three subjects were able to sustain their non-deprived performance levels.