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Citation

Vermeulen MC, Astill RG, Benjamins JS, Swaab H, Van Someren EJ, van der Heijden KB. J. Exp. Child Psychol. 2016; 144: 184-198.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jecp.2015.11.014

PMID

26761147

Abstract

The importance of sufficient sleep for cognitive performance has been increasingly recognized. Individual differences in susceptibility to effects of sleep restriction have hardly been investigated in children. We investigated whether individual differences in temperament moderate the association of sleep duration with sustained attention, inhibition, and working memory in 123 children (42% boys) aged 9 to 11 years. Sleep duration was assessed using parental diaries, and temperament traits of extraversion and negative affectivity were assessed by child self-report (Early Adolescent Temperament Questionnaire-Revised). Computerized assessment of sustained attention (short-form Psychomotor Vigilance Task, PVT), inhibition (PVT Go/No-Go adaptation), and working memory (visual Digit Span) were performed at school. Our findings demonstrate that long-sleeping introverted and negatively affective children show worse sustained attention and working memory than short-sleeping children with these temperaments.


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