Impairment of error monitoring following sleep deprivation.

Study Objectives: To verify if error monitoring, involving detection and remedial actions, is affected by sleep deprivation.

Design: Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and electroencephalogram spectrum during performance of Flanker task were obtained in a within-subject, counter-balanced, repeated-measures design.

Setting: Sleep deprivation and data collection were conducted in a laboratory setting.