Sleep deprivation and its effects on communication during individual and collaborative tasks.

ABSTRACT: Sleep loss has been shown to cause impairments in a number of aspects central for successful communication, ranging from poorer linguistic comprehension to alterations in speech prosody. However, the effect of sleep loss on actual communication is unknown. This study investigated how a night of sleep deprivation affected performance during multiple tasks designed to test verbal communication. Healthy participants (N = 183) spent 8-9 hours per night in bed for three nights and were then randomised to either one night of total sleep deprivation or a fourth night with 8-9 hours in bed. The following day, participants completed two tasks together with another participant: a model-building task and a word-description task. Differences in performance of these tasks were assessed alongside speaki

SUBMITTER: Holding BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395705 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature