Sleep loss and performance: no 'safe' duration of a monotonous task

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 599-604

  Gillberg, Mats ^a   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Swed Natl Inst Psychosocial F   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Performance; Sleep loss; Time on task; Visual vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032123372     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00063-8     Document Type: Article

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