Sleep Loss and Complex Team Performance

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“…Communication, an essential component of teamwork, is decremented at the individual level under conditions of fatigue. The few team studies of fatigue and communication, conducted most frequently in military populations, found teams either reduced or stopped communications, which decreased performance, and sought more visual forms of information (Whitmore et al, 2008; Fletcher et al, 2012).…”

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“…Using a similar simulation, Whitmore, Chaiken, Fischer, Harrison, and Harville (2008) measured the performance of 30 United States officers over a 30-hour period performing airborne command and control tasks as well as ANAM tasks. There was only one significant effect on individual performance-the number of friendly aircraft attacked did not return to the baseline level during the recovery day.…”