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A new visual performance test offers new variables for assessing daytime vigilance: short pauses in performance
T Jokinen1, O Saarenpää-Heikkilä, P Laippala
1Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland. tapio@clinilab.fi
Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers : a Journal of the Psychonomic Society, Inc
|September 25, 1999
Abstract:
A new visual performance test, VigiMouse, was evaluated with the aid of 6 volunteering pediatry residents. The results were compared with a visual analogue scale in differentiating four different states: mild sleep deprivation, low blood alcohol level, a combination of both, and the normal state. A normal night shift at a busy pediatric ward was chosen to represent sleep deprivation. A new set of parameters based on short pauses in performance proved to be more sensitive in detecting small changes in performance than parameters based on reaction times.