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What Changes without Sleep?

CSEF · 2008 Mammalian Biology

Rachel N. Cornelison, Emma L. Liband · Richmond Elementary School, Susanville, Lassen County

Overview

Objectives/Goals Our objective was to learn if lack of sleep affects performance. Methods/Materials We tested our subjects with their normal sleep and without sleep for one night in math, hand-eye coordination in a basketball shoot and catching a tennis ball, and running speed. Results We found that our subjects performed slower and less accurately after having no sleep. Conclusions/Discussion Our subjects did not perform as well without sleep and supported our hypothesis. We also found from our reseach that lack of sleep increases brain activity and temperature, and people are unable to think or do things as well as they normally do. We saw and felt how hard it is to stay up all night.

Summary statement

Our project is about how the lack of sleep affects a person's performance.

Help received

Mrs. Cornelison let us host our experiment at her house, Mrs. Liband participated in an interview. Miss. Scheff and Miss. Millar for helping us with our display board.

Competition history

  • CSEF 2008 Mammalian Biology · Entry J1108

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