The Effects of Sleep Duration and the Time to Fall Asleep on the Short-term Memory Performance

Yuchen Du

2022

Abstract

Sleep is an issue that scientists have devoted to researching in recent decades, particularly with the decreasing sleep time due to job obligations. The association between sleep and people’s work performance has become increasingly relevant. This study investigates how sleep duration and time to fall asleep affect short-term memory performance in individuals aged 16 to 22. Data was collected throughout a 10-day sleep quantitative experiment on 61 participants using the digit span test and sleep monitor app. By analyzing using R studio, the original hypothesis was compared to reach the following conclusions: there is no significant correlation between the time to fall asleep and short-term memory performance, with a moderately positive correlation between 6.5-7.5h and a moderately negative correlation between 7.5-8.5h. These findings show how young adults can enhance sleep duration to achieve the most spectacular optimization of short-term memory performance, which is critical for supporting people in forming healthy lifestyles.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Du Y. (2022). The Effects of Sleep Duration and the Time to Fall Asleep on the Short-term Memory Performance. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH, ISBN 978-989-758-596-8, pages 443-449. DOI: 10.5220/0011371900003438

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichih22,
author={Yuchen Du},
title={The Effects of Sleep Duration and the Time to Fall Asleep on the Short-term Memory Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,},
year={2022},
pages={443-449},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011371900003438},
isbn={978-989-758-596-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,
TI - The Effects of Sleep Duration and the Time to Fall Asleep on the Short-term Memory Performance
SN - 978-989-758-596-8
AU - Du Y.
PY - 2022
SP - 443
EP - 449
DO - 10.5220/0011371900003438