Interpersonal synchrony in electrodermal activity predicts decreased performance in a vigilance task induced by sleep deprivation
conference paper
Safety and security tasks often rely on operators’ vigilant attention, the ability to focus for a prolonged period of time while performing a monotonous cognitive task. Sleep deprivation (SD) impairs vigilant attention (Hudson et al., 2020). At the same time, SD is unavoidable in certain professions and under certain circumstances. Continuous information about vigilant attention of sleep deprived individuals would be helpful to monitor whether they are at risk of lapsing and consequently making mistakes. Physiological synchrony may be used for this purpose. Physiological synchrony refers to the degree to which physiological measures such as heart rate (HR) or electrodermal activity (EDA) uniformly change across individuals. When individuals attend to the same events in the world for a few minutes or more, they show physiological synchrony (Stuldreher et al., 2020). The degree of physiological synchrony reflects the amount of attentional engagement, i.e., the more engaged an individual is with the presented event, the higher the physiological synchrony with other individuals. We here investigate whether physiological synchrony as measure of attentional engagement can predict decreased performance in a vigilant attention task during SD.
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TNO Identifier
1013468
Publisher
Society for Neuroadaptive Technology
Source title
The Third Neuroadaptive Technology Conference, NAT 2022, October 9 – October 12, 2022,Lübbenau, Germany
Place of publication
S.L.
Pages
20-22