The influence of a short daytime NAP and the influence of its timing on psychomotor efficiency

Abstract

The aim of the study was to compare day psychomotor performances of people suffering from sleep disorders and a control group of healthy people, and to test the hypothesis that a short, 15 minute long sleep causes more important sleep inertia at 3 p.m. than at 1 p.m.

Keywords

• Decline of attention
• multiple sleep latency test
• alertness visual analogue scale
• psychomotor vigilance task
• sleep disorders
• sleepiness
• sleep inertia