The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Information-Integration Categorization Performance
The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Information-Integration Categorization Performance
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DOI:
10.1093/sleep/32.11.1439
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发表时间:
2009-11-01
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影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Schnyer, David M.
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作者:
Maddox, W. Todd;Glass, Brian D.;Schnyer, David M.
Background: Sleep deprivation is a serious problem facing individuals in many critical societal roles. One of the most ubiquitous tasks facing individuals is categorization. Sleep deprivation is known to affect rule-based categorization in the classic Wisconsin Card Sorting Task, but, to date, information-integration categorization has not been examined.Study Objectives: To investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on information-integration category learning.Design: Participants performed an information-integration categorization task twice, separated by a 24-hour period, with or without sleep between testing sessions.Participants: Twenty-one West Point cadets participated in the sleep-de privation group and 28 West Point cadets participated in a control group.Measurements and Results: Sleep deprivation led to an overall performance deficit during the second testing session-that is, whereas participants allowed to sleep showed a significant performance increase during the second testing session, Sleepless participants showed a small (but nonsignificant) performance decline during the second testing session. Model-based analyses indicated that a major contributor to the sleep-deprivation effect was the poor second-session performance of a subgroup of sleep-deprived participants who shifted from optimal information-integration strategies at the end of the first session to less-optimal rule-based strategies at the start of the second session. Sleep-deprived participants who used information-integration strategies in both sessions showed no drop in performance in the second session, mirroring the behavior of control participants.Conclusions: The findings suggest that the neural systems underlying information-integration strategies are not strongly affected by sleep deprivation but, rather, that the use of an information-integration strategy in a task may require active inhibition of rule-based strategies, with this inhibitory process being vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation.