Sleep deprivation affects attentional orienting triggered by central un-informative gaze and arrow cues

Behaviour and neuroimaging studies have shown that Sleep Deprivation (SD) negatively affects exogenously cued selective attention. However, it is an open question as to whether all subtypes of reflexive attention are similarly affected. The aim of this study was principally to assess the impact of partial SD and nighttime performance on reflexive attentional orienting triggered by central uninformative eye-gaze and arrow cues. Subjective mood and interference performance in Emotional Stroop task was also investigated.