Is sleep-related attentional bias due to sleepiness or sleeplessness?

Journal article

Sleep-related attentional bias is a well-documented finding in patients with primary insomnia. To address the question of whether attentional preference for sleep-related stimuli is due to sleepiness (as measured by the Stanford Sleepiness Scale; SSS) or sleeplessness (as measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; PSQI) we investigated 105 non-clinical participants with two attentional bias tasks, an emotional Stroop task and a newly introduced mixed-modality task. The emotional Stroop t...

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Authors: Spiegelhalder, K; Espie, C; Riemann, D

• Journal: Cognition and Emotion
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 541-550
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/02699930802022129
• EISSN: 1464-0600
• ISSN: 0269-9931
• Language: English