Individual Differences in the Effect of Time of Day on Long-Term Memory Access

Anderson, Maureen; Petros, Thomas V.; Beckwith, Bill E.; Mitchell, W. Wade; Fritz, Sara

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“…However, in a study in which a simple weak motor component task was scheduled every 2 hours from 8 am to 10 pm, it was found that ET improved their performance during the day, whereas MT presented an opposite trend, with a phase advance up to 12 hours (Horne et al, 1980). As far as memory tasks are concerned, some studies have shown a phase advance of the best performance time ranging between 2 and 6 hours for MT (Adan, 1991;Anderson et al, 1991;Natale & Lorenzetti, 1997;Petros et al, 1990).…”

Section: Time Of Day and Cognitive Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Circadian Typology: A Comprehensive Review

Adán¹,

Archer²,

Hidalgo³

et al. 2012

Chronobiology International

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The interest in the systematic study of the circadian typology (CT) is relatively recent and has developed rapidly in the two last decades. All the existing data suggest that this individual difference affects our biological and psychological functioning, not only in health, but also in disease. In the present study, we review the current literature concerning the psychometric properties and validity of CT measures as well as individual, environmental and genetic factors that influence the CT. We present a brief overview of the biological markers that are used to define differences between CT groups (sleep-wake cycle, body temperature, cortisol, and melatonin), and we assess the implications for CT and adjustment to shift work and jet-lag. We also review the differences between CT in terms of cognitive abilities, personality traits and the incidence of psychiatric disorders. When necessary, we have emphasized the methodological limitations that exist today and suggested some future avenues of work in order to overcome these. This is a new field of interest to professionals in many different areas (research, labor, academic, and clinical) and this review provides a state of the art discussion to allow professionals to integrate chronobiological aspects of human behavior into their daily practice.

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Section: Time Of Day and Cognitive Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Circadian Typology: A Comprehensive Review

Adán¹,

Archer²,

Hidalgo³

et al. 2012

Chronobiology International

1,035

855

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“…quality with no objective measures of sleep. However, the MEQ and PSQI are widely employed and show good psychometric properties (for example, MEQ : Smith et al 1989 ;Anderson et al 1991 ;Chelminski et al 1997 and for the PSQI : Buysse et al 1989 ;Backhaus et al 2002). Despite this, it is possible that the associations found between the variables may be partially accounted for by shared method variance.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations between diurnal preference, sleep quality and externalizing behaviours: a behavioural genetic analysis

et al. 2010

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Northumbria University has developed Northumbria Research Link (NRL) to enable users to access the University's research output. Copyright © and moral rights for items on NRL are retained by the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. Single copies of full items can be reproduced, displayed or performed, and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided the authors, title and full bibliographic details are given, as well as a hyperlink and/or URL to the original metadata page. The content must not be changed in any way. Full items must not be sold commercially in any format or medium without formal permission of the copyright holder. The full policy is available online: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/policies.html This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.) Background. Certain aspects of sleep co-occur with externalizing behaviours in youth, yet little is known about these associations in adults. The present study : (1) examines the associations between diurnal preference (morningness versus eveningness), sleep quality and externalizing behaviours ; (2) explores the extent to which genetic and environmental influences are shared between or are unique to these phenotypes ; (3) examines the extent to which genetic and environmental influences account for these associations.Method. Questionnaires assessing diurnal preference, sleep quality and externalizing behaviours were completed by 1556 young adult twins and siblings.Results. A preference for eveningness and poor sleep quality were associated with greater externalizing symptoms [r=0.28 (95 % CI 0.23-0.33) and 0.34 (95 % CI 0.28-0.39), respectively]. A total of 18 % of the genetic influences on externalizing behaviours were shared with diurnal preference and sleep quality and an additional 14 % were shared with sleep quality alone. Non-shared environmental influences common to the phenotypes were small (2 %). The association between diurnal preference and externalizing behaviours was mostly explained by genetic influences Conclusions.A preference for eveningness and poor sleep quality are moderately associated with externalizing behaviours in young adults. There is a moderate amount of shared genetic influences between the phenotypes and genetic influences account for a large proportion of the association between sleep and externalizing behaviours. Further research could focus on identifying specific genetic polymorphisms common to both sleep and externalizing behaviours.

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“…Results showed that the success rate of those classed as morning types decreased throughout the day, while the performance of the evening types improved at later test times. The authors concluded that memory performance is critically dependent on matching time-of-day preference with the time the task is administered (Anderson, Petros, Beckwith, Mitchell, & Fritz, 1991).…”

Section: The Effect Of Matching Individuals To Their Preferred Time Omentioning

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“…This may be because peak temperature moves to an earlier time of day as people age (Anderson et al, 1991;Tune, 1969;Webb, 1982). It follows that the optimal time of day for performance in older adults would be during the morning.…”

Section: The Effect Of Matching Individuals To Their Preferred Time Omentioning

confidence: 99%

Time-of-Day Effects on Human Performance

Hines¹

2004

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Individual Differences in the Effect of Time of Day on Long-Term Memory Access

Cited by 73 publications

References 19 publications

Circadian Typology: A Comprehensive Review

Circadian Typology: A Comprehensive Review

Associations between diurnal preference, sleep quality and externalizing behaviours: a behavioural genetic analysis

Time-of-Day Effects on Human Performance

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