@article{ref1,
title="Sleepless night, restless mind: effects of sleep deprivation on mind wandering",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: general",
year="2016",
author="Poh, Jia-Hou and Chong, Pearlynne L. H. and Chee, Michael W. L.",
volume="145",
number="10",
pages="1312-1318",
abstract="Sleep deprivation can result in degradation of sustained attention through increased distraction by task-irrelevant exogenous stimuli. However, attentional failures in the sleep-deprived state could also be a result of task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs, or mind wandering). Here, well-rested and sleep-deprived participants performed a visual search task under high and low perceptual load conditions. Thought probes were administered at irregular intervals to gauge the frequency of TUTs and level of meta-awareness of mind wandering. Despite sleep-deprived participants reporting more TUTs, they also reported less awareness of TUTs. Although the frequency of TUTs decreased in the high load condition in well-rested participants, they were equally frequent across low and high perceptual load conditions in sleep-deprived participants. Together, these findings suggest that sleep deprivation can result in a loss of ability to allocate attentional resources according to task demands consistent with diminished executive control. This may have been exacerbated by reduced meta-awareness. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-3445",
doi="10.1037/xge0000207",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000207"
}