[HTML][HTML] Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about navigation

P Fernandez-Velasco, HJ Spiers - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Research on human navigation by psychologists and neuroscientists has come mainly from
a limited range of environments and participants inhabiting western countries. By contrast …

Individual sleep need is flexible and dynamically related to cognitive function

AM Fjell, KB Walhovd - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Given that sleep deprivation studies consistently show that short sleep causes
neurocognitive deficits, the effects of insufficient sleep on brain health and cognition are of …

Prolonged sleep deprivation induces a cytokine-storm-like syndrome in mammals

D Sang, K Lin, Y Yang, G Ran, B Li, C Chen, Q Li, Y Ma… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most animals require sleep, and sleep loss induces serious pathophysiological
consequences, including death. Previous experimental approaches for investigating sleep …

[HTML][HTML] Country differences in nocturnal sleep variability: Observations from a large-scale, long-term sleep wearable study

AR Willoughby, I Alikhani, M Karsikas, XY Chua… - Sleep Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Study objectives Country or regional differences in sleep duration are well-known, but few
large-scale studies have specifically evaluated sleep variability, either across the work …

Longitudinal Sleep Patterns and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults

SA Keil, AG Schindler, MX Wang, J Piantino… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Sleep disturbances and clinical sleep disorders are associated with all-cause
dementia and neurodegenerative conditions, but it remains unclear how longitudinal …

Short sleep and insomnia are associated with accelerated epigenetic age

CDJ Kusters, ET Klopack, EM Crimmins… - Psychosomatic …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective Short sleep and insomnia are each associated with a greater risk of age-related
disease, which suggests that insufficient sleep may accelerate biological aging. We examine …

[HTML][HTML] Video gaming, but not reliance on GPS, is associated with spatial navigation performance

E Yavuz, C He, CJ Gahnstrom, S Goodroe… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent evidence suggests that greater reliance on GPS-assisted devices is associated with
poorer navigation ability. Studies have also shown that video gaming may be associated …

No phenotypic or genotypic evidence for a link between sleep duration and brain atrophy

AM Fjell, Ø Sørensen, Y Wang, IK Amlien… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Short sleep is held to cause poorer brain health, but is short sleep associated with higher
rates of brain structural decline? Analysing 8,153 longitudinal MRIs from 3,893 healthy …

[HTML][HTML] The sleep, circadian, and cognitive performance consequences of watchkeeping schedules in submariners: A scoping review

I Marando, K Lushington, M Owen, RW Matthews… - Sleep Medicine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Watchkeeping schedules are essential for maintaining submarine operations, but come with
human risk factors including, disrupted sleep, circadian misalignment, and cognitive deficits …

Entropy and a sub-group of geometric measures of paths predict the navigability of an environment

D Yesiltepe, PF Velasco, A Coutrot, AO Torun… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research on navigation, it remains unclear which features of an
environment predict how difficult it will be to navigate. We analysed 478,170 trajectories from …