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Vigilance and Sleepiness: A Laboratory Analysis

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Vigilance and Performance in Automatized Systems/Vigilance et Performance de l’Homme dans les Systèmes Automatisés

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This paper reviews the contribution of the author’s laboratory to aspects of vigilance. A proposed 2/day endogenous rhythm of sleep propensity has been confirmed. Ultradian fluctuations in vigilance tasks and in EEG measures of alertness related to sleep quality were documented. Subjective measures have been found to be entirely unreliable in sub-chronic (5 days sleep deprivation) and chronic (narcoleptics’) sleepiness. Performance deficits were seen both during episodes of drowsiness and after arousals from them (i.e., as ‘sleepiness inertia’). Slow waxing and waning of alertness rather than punctate ‘microsleeps’ determined performance deficits in sleepy patients. Evoked potentials were a sensitive measure of sleepiness which helped differentiate qualitatively different states of ‘REM sleepiness’ and ‘NREM sleepiness’.

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Broughton, R.J. (1989). Vigilance and Sleepiness: A Laboratory Analysis. In: Coblentz, A. (eds) Vigilance and Performance in Automatized Systems/Vigilance et Performance de l’Homme dans les Systèmes Automatisés. NATO ASI Series, vol 49. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0981-6_22

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