@article{ref1,
title="Sleep deprivation and time-on-task performance decrement in the rat psychomotor vigilance task",
journal="Sleep",
year="2014",
author="Oonk, Marcella and Davis, Christopher J. and Krueger, James M. and Wisor, Jonathan P. and Van Dongen, Hans P. A.",
volume="38",
number="3",
pages="445-451",
abstract="STUDY OBJECTIVES: The rat psychomotor vigilance task (rPVT) was developed as a rodent analog of the human psychomotor vigilance task (hPVT). We examined whether rPVT performance displays time-on-task effects similar to those observed on the hPVT. <br><br>DESIGN: The rPVT requires rats to respond to a randomly presented light stimulus to obtain a water reward. Rats were water deprived for 22 h prior to each 30-min rPVT session to motivate performance. We analyzed rPVT performance over time on task and as a function of the response-stimulus interval, at baseline and after sleep deprivation. SETTING: The study was conducted in an academic research vivarium. PARTICIPANTS: Male Long-Evans rats were trained to respond to a 0.5 sec stimulus light within 3 sec of stimulus onset. Complete data were available for n = 20 rats. INTERVENTIONS: Rats performed the rPVT for 30 min at baseline and after 24 h total sleep deprivation by gentle handling. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Compared to baseline, sleep deprived rats displayed increased performance lapses and premature responses, similar to hPVT lapses of attention and false starts. However, in contrast to hPVT performance, the time-on-task performance decrement was not significantly enhanced by sleep deprivation. Moreover, following sleep deprivation, rPVT response times were not consistently increased after short response-stimulus intervals. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The rPVT manifests similarities to the hPVT in global performance outcomes, but not in post-sleep deprivation effects of time on task and response-stimulus interval.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0161-8105",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}