A finger-tapping task and a reaction time task as behavioral measures of the transition from wakefulness to sleep: Which task interferes less with the sleep onset process?

Sleep

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 301-312

  Casagrande, Maria ^a   De Gennaro, Luigi ^a   Violani, Cristiano ^a   Braibanti, Paride ^a   Bertini, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral sleep measures; Finger tapping task; Reaction time task; Sleep onset; Subjective sleep measures

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0030920292     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/20.4.301     Document Type: Article

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