The effects of a single night of sleep deprivation on fluency and prefrontal cortex function during divergent thinking

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Vartanian, Oshin ^a,b   Bouak, Fethi ^a   Caldwell, J L ^c   Cheung, Bob ^a   Cupchik, Gerald ^b   Jobidon, Marie Eve ^a   Lam, Quan ^a   Nakashima, Ann ^a   Paul, Michel ^a   Peng, Henry ^a   Silvia, Paul J ^d   Smith, Ingrid ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergent thinking; Executive function; Fatigue; Fluency; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOMNOLENCE; THINKING; VENTRAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84899135667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00214     Document Type: Article

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