The Walter Reed palm-held psychomotor vigilance test.
This field-portable reaction time test and analysis software run on devices using the Palm operating system. It is designed to emulate a test and commercial device widely used in sleep deprivation, shift work, fatigue, and stimulant drug research but provides additional capabilities. Experimental comparisons with the standard commercial device in a 40-hour total sleep deprivation study show it to be comparably sensitive to selected experimental variables. A Pocket PC-compatible version is under developement.
Thorne
David R
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Department of Behavioral Biology, Division of Neurosciences, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA. david.thorne@us.army.mil
Johnson
Dagny E
DE
Redmond
Daniel P
DP
Sing
Helen C
HC
Belenky
Gregory
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Shapiro
Jordan M
JM
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D034201:Computers, Handheld / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011589:Psychology, Experimental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012892:Sleep Deprivation; D012984:Software / Q000706:statistics & numerical data