Relationship between Sleep Quality and Visual Short-Term Memory in Young Adults

Haoyue Li

2022

Abstract

Modern studies have indicated an active role of sleeping in memory consolidation. To further explore the relationship between them, the present study tested the relationship between sleep quality and visual short-term memory (VSTM) function. The study was conducted via online surveys and targeted at people aged 18 to 30 years old. The survey contained three main sections, basic information, sleep quality questionnaire, and VSTM tests. There are three questions asking age, gender, and education level of the basic information section. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) questionnaire was utilized to assess sleep quality, and global PSQI score was calculated according to the given PSQI calculation model. VSTM tests contain questions with pictures showing squares of different colors and randomly ask the color of a specific square. A total of 82 responses were used for data analysis. Most participants included are college students. A few of them are grad students. The results implicate that no association between sleep quality and VSTM function in younger adults was found in the present study. After comparison between good and poor sleepers, no significant difference in VSTM performance was discovered. Furthermore, after comparing the VSTM performance between females and males, no significant difference was found in the present study. The results from the present study might offer new insight for the relationship between sleep quality and short-term memory and thus suggests new direction for clinical treatment to certain mental diseases.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Li H. (2022). Relationship between Sleep Quality and Visual Short-Term Memory in Young Adults. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH, ISBN 978-989-758-596-8, pages 484-489. DOI: 10.5220/0011372600003438

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichih22,
author={Haoyue Li},
title={Relationship between Sleep Quality and Visual Short-Term Memory in Young Adults},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,},
year={2022},
pages={484-489},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011372600003438},
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 - Relationship between Sleep Quality and Visual Short-Term Memory in Young Adults
SN - 978-989-758-596-8
AU - Li H.
PY - 2022
SP - 484
EP - 489
DO - 10.5220/0011372600003438