Effect of 72 h of Sleep Deprivation on the Iowa Gambling Task

Lei Liu; Renlai Zhou

doi:10.5152/npa.2016.12505

Effect of 72 h of Sleep Deprivation on the Iowa Gambling Task

Noro Psikiyatr Ars. 2016 Dec;53(4):357-360. doi: 10.5152/npa.2016.12505. Epub 2016 Sep 20.

Authors

Lei Liu¹, Renlai Zhou²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, College of Teacher Education, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China; Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
² Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; Beijing Key Lab of Applied Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Introduction: Sleep deprivation has detrimental effects on cognitive processes, including decision making. The present study investigated how 72 h of sleep deprivation influenced individual neural performance in the Iowa gambling task using event-related potential technology.

Methods: Eleven healthy male adults who participated in our study were randomized to be either in group with 72 h of social isolation condition or 72 h of sleep deprivation condition.

Results: Results showed that, in the feedback stage, the N_250-400 amplitude was smaller in post-test than in pre-test for the sleep deprivation condition, especially in the frontal cortex. No significant difference between the pre-test and post-test condition was found in the social isolation condition.

Conclusion: These results suggested that 72 h of sleep deprivation affected an individual's response to feedback stimuli, causing the individual to evaluate the stimuli slowly.

Keywords: Iowa gambling task; Sleep deprivation; event-related potential.