Alarm tones, music and their elements: Analysis of reported waking sounds to counteract sleep inertia.

Sleep inertia is a potentially dangerous reduction in human alertness and occurs 0-4 hours after waking. The type of sound people set as their alarm for waking has been shown to reduce the effects of sleep inertia, however, the elemental musical factors that underpin these waking sounds and their re...

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Main Authors: Stuart J McFarlane, Jair E Garcia, Darrin S Verhagen, Adrian G Dyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215788