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The Walter Reed palm-held psychomotor vigilance test

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This field-portable reaction time test and analysis software run on devices using the Palm operating system. It is designed to emulate a test and commercial device widely used in sleep deprivation, shift work, fatigue, and stimulant drug research but provides additional capabilities. Experimental comparisons with the standard commercial device in a 40-hour total sleep deprivation study show it to be comparably sensitive to selected experimental variables. A Pocket PC-compatible version is under developement.

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  1. Department of Behavioral Biology, Division of Neurosciences, WRAIR, 503 Robert Grant Ave., 20910-7500, Silver Spring, MD

    David R. Thorne, Dagny E. Johnson, Daniel P. Redmond, Helen C. Sing & Gregory Belenky

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    Jordan M. Shapiro

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Correspondence to David R. Thorne.

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This material has been reviewed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and there is no objection to its presentation and/or publication. The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the position of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.

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Thorne, D.R., Johnson, D.E., Redmond, D.P. et al. The Walter Reed palm-held psychomotor vigilance test. Behavior Research Methods 37, 111–118 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206404

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