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Actual And Self-Assessed Performance On A Logical Reasoning Task After A Night Of Total Or Partial Sleep Deprivation, Melissa Vander Wood

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The effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive task performance is becoming more important in today's society. Because of this, how total and partial sleep deprivation affect performance in the workplace needs to be better understood to increase awareness of how employees are able to perform. In addition, employers need to know if employees are able to accurately judge how sleep deprivation is affecting their own performance. The purpose of the current study was to compare the effects of total and partial sleep deprivation on actual and self-assessed performance on a logical reasoning task. Two studies, one under total sleep deprivation …