CIRCADIAN AND SLEEP WAKE DEPENDENT ASPECTS OF SUBJECTIVE ALERTNESS AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE
CIRCADIAN AND SLEEP WAKE DEPENDENT ASPECTS OF SUBJECTIVE ALERTNESS AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992.tb00021.x
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发表时间:
1992-06-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
CZEISLER, CA
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作者:
DIJK, DJ;DUFFY, JF;CZEISLER, CA
Circadian and sleep/wake dependent processes underlying variations in subjective alertness and cognitive performance were assessed in a constant routine protocol and in a protocol in which the sleep/wake cycle was uncoupled from the output of the endogenous circadian pacemaker. In the latter protocol, the contribution of a sleep/wake dependent process and a circadian process to alertness and performance were separated by folding the data at either the period of the sleep/wake cycle or at the period of the endogenous circadian body temperature rhythm. This analysis revealed that prior wakefulness within a range of 0-18 h significantly reduced alertness and performance and that the circadian rhythm of core body temperature paralleled the circadian rhythm of alertness and performance. During the first 16 h of the constant routine protocol, which coincided with the subjects' habitual period of wakefulness, alertness and performance remained at a stable level. The latter finding was explained by assuming that during our usual waking day the circadian system counteracts the detrimental effects of increasing duration of prior wakefulness.