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Dutil C, De Pieri J, Sadler CM, Maslovat D, Chaput JP, Carlsen AN. Chronic short sleep duration lengthens reaction time, but the deficit is not associated with motor preparation. J Sleep Res 2024:e14231. [PMID: 38782723 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.14231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between chronic sleep duration and reaction time performance and motor preparation during a simple reaction time task with a startling acoustic stimulus in adults. This cross-sectional study included self-reported short sleepers (n = 25, ≤ 6 hr per night) and adequate sleepers (n = 25, ≥ 7.5 hr per night) who performed a simple reaction time task requiring a targeted ballistic wrist extension in response to either a control-tone (80 dB) or a startling acoustic stimulus (120 dB). Outcome measures included reaction times for each stimulus (overall and for each trial block), lapses, and proportion of startle responses. Chronic short sleepers slept on average 5.7 hr per night in the previous month, which was 2.8 hr per night less than the adequate sleepers. Results revealed an interaction between sleep duration group and stimulus type; the short sleepers had significantly slower control-tone reaction times compared with adequate sleepers, but there was no significant difference in reaction time between groups for the startling acoustic stimulus. Further investigation showed that chronic short sleepers had significantly slower control-tone reaction times after two blocks of trials lasting about 5 min, until the end of the task. Lapses were not significantly different between groups. Chronic short sleep duration was associated with poorer performance; however, these reaction time deficits cannot be attributed to motor preparation, as startling acoustic stimulus reaction times were not different between sleep duration groups. While time-on-task performance decrements were associated with chronic sleep duration, alertness was not. Sleeping less than the recommended sleep duration on a regular basis is associated with poorer cognitive performance, which becomes evident after 5 min.
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Affiliation(s)
- Caroline Dutil
- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Evidence for distinct steps in response preparation from a delayed response paradigm. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2018; 191:42-51. [PMID: 30218843 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Task parameters still affect reaction times even when all necessary information for executing an action is presented prior to a Go signal to execute the action. Hypotheses in terms of short-term memory capacity, residual activation, and a separate motor-programming stage have been suggested to explain what can and cannot be prepared prior to a delayed Go signal. To test these hypotheses, we used a delayed response task, in which participants were to initiate a movement at onset of an imperative Go signal following the target stimulus. Across Experiments 1-3 we varied task properties including stimulus type, information uncertainty and response complexity, respectively, while controlling other factors. We also varied the time available to process the response by randomly varying the interval between onset of the target and the Go signal (i.e., the stimulus onset asynchrony, or SOA). If the preparation process is completed before initiation, the examined factor should display a strong interaction with SOA, with its effect disappearing at long SOAs. Our results showed strong, weaker, and no interaction patterns for the three factors, respectively, favoring the separate stage hypothesis, according to which response preparation is separated into steps to arrange kinematic specifications into muscle-controllable terms.
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Carlsen AN. A broadband acoustic stimulus is more likely than a pure tone to elicit a startle reflex and prepared movements. Physiol Rep 2015; 3:3/8/e12509. [PMID: 26311832 PMCID: PMC4562592 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A loud acoustic stimulus that elicits a startle reflex has long been used to study the neurophysiology of cortical and subcortical neural circuits. More recent investigations have shown that startle can act as an early trigger for prepared actions, suggesting a brainstem role in the preparation and initiation of actions. However, in order to attribute any startle-triggered voluntary responses to activation in subcortical structures it is necessary to measure a startle-related activity in these structures. The current study investigated the most effective stimulus for eliciting a detectible startle reflex. While more intense stimuli are more likely to elicit a startle reflex, the current study examined whether broadband noise is more likely than a pure tone to produce a startle at various intensities above 100 dB. Participants performed a button release reaction time task in response to either a 1 kHz tone or a broadband noise pulse with intensities ranging from 82 to 124 dB. Reaction time and EMG from the wrist extensors and the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) were measured. Results showed that startle-related SCM EMG was elicited more frequently by broadband noise compared to pure tones. The higher proportion of startle reflexes observed in SCM was associated with a higher incidence of the voluntary task being triggered early. A higher incidence of startle following broadband noise is attributed to the activation of a larger proportion of the basilar membrane; thus, a lower intensity broadband noise stimulus may be used to elicit startle reflex at a similar rate as a higher intensity pure tone.
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- Anthony N Carlsen
- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Maslovat D, Drummond NM, Carter MJ, Carlsen AN. Reduced motor preparation during dual-task performance: evidence from startle. Exp Brain Res 2015; 233:2673-83. [PMID: 26026810 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4340-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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- Dana Maslovat
- School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, War Memorial Gymnasium 210-6081 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada,
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Pause time alters the preparation of two-component movements. Exp Brain Res 2013; 231:85-96. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3670-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Anodal tDCS over SMA decreases the probability of withholding an anticipated action. Behav Brain Res 2013; 257:208-14. [PMID: 24064279 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.09.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2013] [Revised: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 09/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Previous research has shown that the supplementary motor area (SMA) is critical in movement inhibition. Recently it was shown that applying transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over SMA affected participants' ability to inhibit their movement in a stop-signal reaction time task (Hsu et al. [11]). Of interest in the current study was whether modulating SMA excitability using tDCS would have similar effects in an anticipation-timing stop-signal task. Participants performed 2 sessions each consisting of a pre- and post-tDCS block of 160 trials in which they were instructed to extend their wrist concurrently with the arrival of a pointer to a target (i.e., a clock hand reaching a set position). In 20% of trials (stop trials) the pointer stopped 80, 110, 140, 170, or 200 ms prior to the target, and on these trials participants were instructed to inhibit their movement if possible. Anodal and cathodal tDCS (separated by at least 48 h) was applied for each participant between the pre- and post-tDCS blocks. No change in the proportion of successfully inhibited movements on stop trials was found following cathodal tDCS (p>.05). However, anodal tDCS resulted in a decreased proportion of successfully inhibited movements on stop trials (p=002), and an earlier movement onset on control trials (p<.01). This suggests that the SMA may be more involved in initiation than in inhibition of anticipatory movements. Furthermore these data suggest that differences in initiation and inhibitory processes exist between stop-signal reaction time and anticipation-timing stop-signal tasks.
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