Sleep Deprivation Affects Memory and Attention

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210617.088How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sleep, Exercise, Attention, Memory, Deprivation

Abstract

Numerous researches suggest that sleep and memory have been an important part of people’s lives and are positively correlated. The present study aims to explore this topic further by providing short-term memory experiments and a discussion of sleep of memory and attention. Two different age groups were compared and reviewed on the differences between memory and attention with sleep as another factor. Twenty participants aged 18-22 and 42-47 were randomly selected in two groups and were asked to do a memory and a attention task after recoding their sleep hours for seven days. However, contrary to predictions, the result shows that the sum of sleep time and memory tasks are negatively related and there is not a significant relationship between sleep and attention, which are also different from previous researches. These results may be caused by some biases in this experiment and it also raised some doubt on the generalization of the benefits of sleep on memory. The results and biases of this experiment are discussed.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruiqi Feng
AU  - Lin Zhang
AU  - Qiongwei Ye
AU  - Yashi Cai
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/20
TI  - Sleep Deprivation Affects Memory and Attention
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Humanities Education (ICMHHE 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 323
EP  - 326
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210617.088
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210617.088
ID  - Feng2021
ER  -