Relationships between affect, vigilance, and sleepiness following sleep deprivation

Summary This pilot study examined the relationships between the effects of sleep deprivation on subjective and objective measures of sleepiness and affect, and psychomotor vigilance performance. Following an adaptation night in the laboratory, healthy young adults were randomly assigned to either a night of total sleep deprivation (SD group; n = 15) or to a night of normal sleep (non‐SD group; n = 14) under controlled laboratory conditions. The...