“…Sleep deprivation (hours without sleep) has been found to impair detection performance on visual (Wilkinson, 1960) and auditory (Deaton, Tobias & Wilkinson, 1971) vigilance tasks, target detection tasks (Drucker, Cannon and Ware, 1969), visual search patterns (Kaluger & Smith, 1970), information processing tasks (Bugge, Opstad & Magnus, 1979), five-choice serial reaction time (RT) tasks (Wilkinson, 1961), tracking performance (Drucker, Cannon & Ware, 1969), and vehicle control use measures (Forbes et al, 1958).…”