05/07/2021
June 27, 2021. Research update: bit.ly/sleepbeatscaffeine
DO THIS BEFORE YOU FOCUS ON IMPORTANT, HIGH-LEVEL TASKS
"These results suggest that sleep deprivation impairs placekeeping directly through a causal pathway that does not include visual vigilant attention, a finding that has implications for intervention research and suggests that caffeine has limited potential to reduce procedural error rates in occupational settings."
*LESSONS: (1) Caffeine can only help you some what in just staying awake. (2) But when it comes to more important tasks that require high focus (e.g., math problem solving, driving, medical procedures), adequate sleep is still the prerequisite solution.
