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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sleep Research
  • Psychology

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  • Sleep deprivation is known to impair cognitive function.
  • However, the specific cognitive processes affected by sleep loss remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of total sleep deprivation (TSD) on specific cognitive processes within a semantic matching task.
  • To differentiate between early (semantic encoding) and later cognitive stages affected by sleep loss.

Main Methods:

  • A semantic matching task with variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) was administered.
  • Participants completed the task under both speeded and self-paced conditions.
  • Data was collected at baseline and after 30.8 hours of TSD or a control period.

Main Results:

  • Following TSD, the slowest 20% of response times (RTs) significantly increased.
  • The semantic encoding time, a component of RTs, did not change significantly after TSD.
  • Impairments were localized to cognitive processes occurring after semantic encoding.

Conclusions:

  • Total sleep deprivation primarily affects cognitive functions beyond initial semantic processing.
  • Performance deficits following sleep loss are attributable to downstream cognitive operations.