Gender and age differences in psychomotor vigilance performance under differential sleep pressure conditions

Blatter, Katharina; Graw, Peter; Münch, Mirjam; Knoblauch, Vera; Wirz‐Justice, Anna; Cajochen, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2005.11.018

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“…Actually, these differences in reaction times seem to be normal between genders and have already been observed in children and adults (18,21,28). It is known that boys and girls perform differently on cognitive tests (18,29).…”

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confidence: 64%

“…It is known that boys and girls perform differently on cognitive tests (18,29). Many studies have used performance tasks such as PVT and other reaction time tasks to investigate the effect of sleep restriction in children (30,31).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This gender difference tends to disappear when older children are compared (21). Blatter and colleagues (18) reported significantly slower RTs in women compared to men, both in young adults (20 to 31 years) and in healthy elderly individuals (57 to 74 years). A study that used a 2-and 4-choice task showed significantly faster RTs in men than in women.…”

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“…The psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) (14,15) has been used in sleep research as an objective measure for the assessment of sustained attention and alertness. PVT results throughout the day reflect a circadian modulation of neuro-Influence of gender on PVT performance by adolescents www.bjournal.com.br behavioral functions as well as the effect of sleep pressure developing with time awake (16)(17)(18)(19)(20).…”

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Influence of gender on psychomotor vigilance task performance by adolescents

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Silva

Peixoto

et al. 2008

Braz J Med Biol Res

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During adolescence, the sleep phase delay associated with early school times increases daytime sleepiness and reduces psychomotor performance. Some studies have shown an effect of gender on psychomotor performance in adults and children. Males present faster reaction times (RT) compared with females. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of gender on Palm psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) performance in adolescents. Thirty-four adolescents (19 girls, 13 to 16 years old) attending morning school classes of a public school in Curitiba, PR, Brazil, participated in the study. Sleep patterns were measured using actigraphy and sleepiness data were accessed with the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS). KSS and PVT measurements were collected at two times in the morning (8:00 and 11:00 h). The data were compared using one-way ANOVA, considering gender as a factor. ANOVA indicated that gender did not affect sleep patterns and subjective somnolence; however, a statistically significant effect of gender was detected for PVT performance. Boys presented faster RT (RT-PVT1: 345.51 ms, F = 6.08, P < 0.05; RT-PVT2: 343.30 ms, F = 6.35, P < 0.05) and fewer lapses (lapses-PVT1: 8.71, F = 4.45, P < 0.05; lapses-PVT2: 7.82, F = 7.06, P < 0.05) compared with girls (RT-PVT1: 402.96; ). These results showed that this effect of gender, already reported in adults and children, is also observed in adolescents. The influence of gender should be taken into account in studies that use Palm PVT to evaluate psychomotor performance in this age range.

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confidence: 99%

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Influence of gender on psychomotor vigilance task performance by adolescents

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“…However, current research suggests that potential gender differences do exist in sustained attention ability and the strategy used by participants in completing sustained attention tasks. In particular, women have been found to take a more cautious approach to such tasks, with slower overall reaction times (Blatter et al., 2006; Riley et al., 2016). While the cause of these gender differences remains unknown, with some work indicating that cultural factors such a gender inequality may modulate these differences (Riley et al., 2016), it remains an interesting question for future work whether males and females differ in their sustained attention ability independent of early life experiences and whether a history of early life trauma interacts with any potential baseline differences.…”

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Interpersonal early‐life trauma alters amygdala connectivity and sustained attention performance

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IntroductionInterpersonal early life trauma (I‐ELT) is associated with a myriad of functional impairments in adulthood, increased risk of drug addiction, and neuropsychiatric disorders. While deficits in emotional regulation and amygdala functioning are well characterized, deficits in general cognitive functioning have also been documented. However, the neural underpinnings of cognitive dysfunction in adults with a history of I‐ELT and the potential relationship between amygdala‐based functional connectivity and behavioral performance are currently poorly understood. This study examined how I‐ELT affects the cognitive and neural mechanisms supporting sustained attention.MethodsA total of 66 Veterans (18 with and 48 without a history of I‐ELT) completed a nonemotional sustained attention task during functional MRI.ResultsThe individuals with I‐ELT showed significant impairments in sustained attention (i.e., higher error rates, greater response variability). This cohort exhibited increased amygdala functional connectivity with the prefrontal cortex and decreased functional connectivity with the parahippocampal gyrus when compared to those without I‐ELT. These connections were significantly correlated with individual differences in sustained attention performance. Notably, classification analyses revealed that the pattern of amygdala connectivity across the whole brain was able to classify I‐ELT status with 70% accuracy.ConclusionThese results provide evidence of a lasting negative impact for those with a history of I‐ELT on sustained attention ability. They also highlight a critical role for amygdala functioning in cognitive control and sustained attention for those with a history of I‐ELT, which may underlie the observed attention deficits in clinical assessments and cognitive tests involving both emotional and nonemotional stimuli.

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Default mode network mediates low‐frequency fluctuations in brain activity and behavior during sustained attention

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Yang

Qiao

et al. 2022

Human Brain Mapping

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The low-frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuation in sustained attention attracts enormous interest in cognitive neuroscience and clinical research since it always leads to cognitive and behavioral lapses. What is the source of the spontaneous fluctuation in sustained attention in neural activity, and how does the neural fluctuation relate to behavioral fluctuation? Here, we address these questions by collecting and analyzing two independent fMRI and behavior datasets. We show that the neural (fMRI) fluctuation in a key brain network, the default-mode network (DMN), mediate behavioral (reaction time) fluctuation during sustained attention. DMN shows the increased amplitude of fluctuation, which correlates with the behavioral fluctuation in a similar frequency range (0.01-0.1 Hz) but not in the lower (<0.01 Hz) or higher (>0.1 Hz) frequency range. This was observed during both auditory and visual sustained attention and was replicable across independent datasets. These results provide a novel insight into the neural source of attention-fluctuation and extend the former concept that DMN was deactivated in cognitive tasks. More generally, our findings highlight the temporal dynamic of the brain-behavior relationship.

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Gender and age differences in psychomotor vigilance performance under differential sleep pressure conditions

Cited by 188 publications

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Influence of gender on psychomotor vigilance task performance by adolescents

Influence of gender on psychomotor vigilance task performance by adolescents

Interpersonal early‐life trauma alters amygdala connectivity and sustained attention performance

Default mode network mediates low‐frequency fluctuations in brain activity and behavior during sustained attention

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