Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processing

A study in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorisation (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorisation is fundamental to survival...

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