Reversal learning deficits during sleep deprivation: investigating the role of information acquisition failures. (2nd October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lawrence-Sidebottom, Darian; Hinson, John M.; Whitney, Paul; Van Dongen, Hans P. A.; Honn, Kimberly A.
• Is Part Of: Chronobiology international. Volume 37:Number 9/10(2020)
• Page Start: 1445
• Page End: 1451
• Publication Date: 2020-10-02
• Subjects: Decision making -- vigilant attention -- cognitive flexibility -- performance feedback -- feedback blunting -- skin conductance response -- stimulus masking -- feedback masking; Chronobiology -- Periodicals; Biological rhythms -- Periodicals; Circadian rhythms -- Periodicals; 571.77
• DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1819306
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0742-0528

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Besides degrading vigilant attention, total sleep deprivation (TSD) impairs reversal learning performance and blunts affective reactions to feedback. Whether these effects are downstream consequences of information acquisition failures from degraded vigilant attention, or distinct from degraded vigilant attention, is unclear. In well-rested individuals we simulated information acquisition failures by masking a portion of trial information in a go/no-go reversal learning task with four conditions: stimulus masking, feedback masking, alternating stimulus/feedback masking, and no-masking control. No condition reproduced the previously documented pattern of TSD effects, suggesting that information acquisition failures cannot fully account for impaired reversal learning and blunted affective reactions during TSD.