The Effects of a Single Night of Sleep Deprivation on Fluency and Prefrontal Cortex Function during Divergent Thinking

The dorsal and ventral aspects of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are the two regions most consistently recruited in divergent thinking tasks. Given that frontal tasks have been shown to be vulnerable to sleep loss, we explored the impact of a single night of sleep deprivation on fluency (i.e., number o...

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Main Authors: Oshin eVartanian, Fethi eBouak, J. Lynn eCaldwell, Bob eCheung, Gerald eCupchik, Marie-Eve eJobidon, Quan eLam, Ann eNakashima, Michel ePaul, Henry ePeng, Paul J. Silvia, Ingrid eSmith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00214/full