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Overview

Paul Whitney is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with specific emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology. Additional areas of study include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine as well as epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers key topics related to sleep and fatigue, including:

  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health

Frequent publication venues for Paul Whitney include:

  • SLEEP
  • Chronobiology International
  • PLoS ONE
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • SSM - Population Health

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Whitney include:

  • "Total sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing," 2021, published in PLoS ONE
  • "Sleep deprivation impairs binding of information with its context," 2021, published in SLEEP
  • "Speed/accuracy trade-off in the effects of acute total sleep deprivation on a sustained attention and response inhibition task," 2020, published in Chronobiology International
  • "Psychological and social support associations with mortality and cardiovascular disease in middle-aged American Indians: the Strong Heart Study," 2022, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • "Race/ethnicity, sleep duration, and mortality risk in the United States," 2023, published in SSM - Population Health

Paul Whitney collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • John M. Hinson
  • Courtney Kurinec
  • Kimberly A. Honn
  • Hans Van Dongen
  • Hans P. A. Van Dongen

Best Publications

  • Impulsive decision making and working memory.

    John M. Hinson;Tina L. Jameson;Paul Whitney

  • Developing L2 Oral Proficiency Through Synchronous CMC: Output, Working Memory, and Interlanguage Development.

    J. Scott Payne;Paul J. Whitney

  • Effects of sleep deprivation on dissociated components of executive functioning.

    Adrienne M. Tucker;Paul Whitney;Gregory Belenky;John M. Hinson

  • Somatic markers, working memory, and decision making.

    John M. Hinson;Tina L. Jameson;Paul Whitney

  • Working‐memory capacity and the use of elaborative inferences in text comprehension

    Paul Whitney;Bill G. Ritchie;Matthew B. Clark

  • The effect of trait anxiety and situational stress on working memory capacity.

    Barbara A Sorg;Paul Whitney

  • Deconstructing and reconstructing cognitive performance in sleep deprivation.

    Melinda L. Jackson;Melinda L. Jackson;Glenn Gunzelmann;Paul Whitney;John M. Hinson

  • Framing effects under cognitive load: the role of working memory in risky decisions.

    Paul Whitney;Christa A. Rinehart;John M. Hinson

  • Individual differences in working memory strategies for reading expository text

    Desiree Budd;Paul Whitney;Kandi Jo Turley

  • Feedback blunting: Total sleep deprivation impairs decision making that requires updating based on feedback

    Paul Whitney;John M. Hinson;Melinda L. Jackson;Hans P.A. Van Dongen

  • Integration of visual and verbal information in children's memories.

    Edward M. Duncan;Paul Whitney;Seth Kunen

  • The Psychology of Language

    Paul Whitney

  • Components of working memory and somatic markers in decision making.

    Tina L. Jameson;John M. Hinson;Paul Whitney

  • Measuring central executive functioning: what's in a reading span?

    Paul Whitney;Peter A. Arnett;Amy Driver;Desiree Budd

  • Impulsiveness and executive control of working memory

    Paul Whitney;Tina Jameson;John M Hinson

  • The effect of foregrounding on readers' use of predictive inferences.

    Paul Whitney;Bill G. Ritchie;Robert S. Crane

  • Semantic activation of noun concepts in context.

    Paul Whitney;Timothy McKay;George Kellas;William A. Emerson

  • Psychological Theories of Elaborative Inferences: Implications for Schema-theoretic Views of Comprehension.

    Paul Whitney

  • Cognitive flexibility: A distinct element of performance impairment due to sleep deprivation.

    K.A. Honn;J.M. Hinson;J.M. Hinson;P. Whitney;P. Whitney;H.P.A. Van Dongen

  • Measurement of cognition in studies of sleep deprivation.

    Paul Whitney;John M Hinson

  • Reading perspectives and memory for text : an individual differences analysis

    William H. Lee-Sammons;Paul Whitney

  • Think-Aloud Protocols and the Study of Comprehension

    Paul Whitney;Desiree Budd

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Belenky
Gregory Belenky Washington State University Spokane
Peter A. Arnett
Peter A. Arnett Pennsylvania State University

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