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Article

The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Networks in Response to Social Evaluation Tasks

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Sleep and NeuroImaging Center, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China
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Brain Sci. 2023, 13(8), 1122; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081122
Submission received: 29 June 2023 / Revised: 21 July 2023 / Accepted: 23 July 2023 / Published: 25 July 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Sleep Deprivation)

Abstract

Sleep loss may lead to negative bias during social interaction. In the current study, we conducted a revised social evaluation task experiment to investigate how sleep deprivation influences the self-referential and cognitive processes of social feedback. The experiment consisted of a first impression task and a social feedback task. Seventy-eight participants completed the first impression task and were divided into normal and poor sleep groups. The results of an independent samples t-test showed that participants who slept worse were less likely to socialize with others but did not evaluate others as less attractive. Afterward, 22 of the participants from the first impression task were recruited to complete the social feedback task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on the mornings following two different sleep conditions at night: one night of normal sleep and one night of sleep deprivation. The results of this within-subject design study showed that participants who experienced the latter condition showed increased activation within the default mode network (i.e. superior parietal lobule, precuneus, inferior parietal lobule, inferior temporal gyrus, and medial frontal gyrus) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and stronger negative insula functional connectivity (FC) with the precuneus to negative feedback than positive feedback. The altered activation and behavioral pattern may indicate a negative bias for social cues. However, stronger negative coupling may indicate stronger cognitive control, which may protect against potential damage to self-concept. Our study suggested that sleep impairs most social functions, but may protect against impairment of important ones, such as self-concept.
Keywords: sleep deprivation; social feedback; social evaluation task; default mode network; self-referential processing; cognitive control sleep deprivation; social feedback; social evaluation task; default mode network; self-referential processing; cognitive control

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Mi, Y.; Duan, H.; Xu, Z.; Lei, X. The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Networks in Response to Social Evaluation Tasks. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081122

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Mi Y, Duan H, Xu Z, Lei X. The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Networks in Response to Social Evaluation Tasks. Brain Sciences. 2023; 13(8):1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081122

Chicago/Turabian Style

Mi, Yiqi, Huimin Duan, Ziye Xu, and Xu Lei. 2023. "The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Networks in Response to Social Evaluation Tasks" Brain Sciences 13, no. 8: 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081122

APA Style

Mi, Y., Duan, H., Xu, Z., & Lei, X. (2023). The Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Brain Networks in Response to Social Evaluation Tasks. Brain Sciences, 13(8), 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081122

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