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Accurately detecting drowsiness is vital to driving safety. Among all measures, physiological-signal-based drowsiness monitoring can be more privacy-preserving than a camera-based approach. However, conflicts exist regarding how physiological metrics are associated with different drowsiness labels across datasets. Thus, we analyzed key features from electrocardiograms (ECG), electrodermal activity (EDA), and respiratory (RESP) signals across four datasets, where different drowsiness inducers (such as fatigue and low arousal) and assessment methods (subjective vs. objective) were used. Binary logistic regression models were built to identify the physiological metrics that are associated with drowsiness. Findings indicate that distinct different drowsiness inducers can lead to different physiological responses, and objective assessments were more sensitive than subjective ones in detecting drowsiness. Further, the increased heart rate stability, reduced respiratory amplitude, and decreased tonic EDA are robustly associated with increased drowsiness. The results enhance understanding of drowsiness detection and can inform future generalizable monitoring designs.

We're all regularly reminded that we should be getting at least seven hours of sleep every night. But whether it's laying awake with stress or being kept up by the children, in reality, many Britons get significantly less than this. Now, experts have warned that your body could be paying the price. Sleep tech firm, Simba, has used artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal the physical effects of sleep depivation. From a bloated belly to blotchy skin, the images may serve as a reminder of the importance of getting a decent kip.

This paper aims to explore the separation of the two forward passes in the Forward-Forward algorithm from a biological perspective in the context of sleep. We show the size of the gap between the sleep and awake phase influences the learning capabilities of the algorithm and highlight the importance of negative data in diminishing the devastating effects of sleep deprivation. The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm (Hinton, 2022) introduces a new learning procedure that provides a feasible model of how learning works inside the cortex. In contrast with backpropagation (Rumelhart et al., 1986), which has been previously shown to be an implausible explanation for learning in the brain (Lillicrap et al., 2020), the Forward-Forward algorithm aims to avoid the large memory footprint and overhead computation arising from the backward pass by introducing two separate forward passes that optimize opposite objectives. During training, one forward pass operates on real or positive data, while the other uses negative data, which can be generated internally by the network through top-down connections or supplied externally.

Changing the clocks could have greater consequences than just missing your alarm, as a new study has found it makes us drive more dangerously. Researchers at the University of Padova in Italy and the University of Surrey have found that Daylight Saving Time (DST) disrupts our sleep-wake cycle. They tested the driving ability of 23 male Italian drivers before and after the introduction of springtime DST, and found they took more risks as a result of the change. Their reaction times and ability to read situations on the road were also compromised after losing the hour. This is thought to be the result of sleep deprivation and disturbances to their circadian rhythms - the internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and other rhythmic functions.

Cartilage in the brain morphs while we sleep – possibly explaining why a good snooze can help consolidate memories, a new study suggests. The neurons in our brains that exchange information and help us learn have a cartilage-like sheath around them, known as a perineuronal net (PNN). US researchers believe that sleeping loosens this net enough to make our strong memories stronger and our weak memories weaker, causing them to drop out. Using mice and brains from human donors, they worked out PNNs densities in brain regions involved in emotional memory processing during a day's body cycle. They found that PNNs change in their elasticity in a circadian manner – recurring naturally on a 24-hour cycle – but sleep deprivation can disrupt this cycle.

It's true: A good night's sleep really does help us do our best the next day, and a couple of bad nights of sleep could hurt us for days to come. That's according to a new study from Microsoft's research organization, which analyzed anonymized data on people's online activities and sleep behavior to show how sleep quality impacts our ability to type queries on a search engine and click on the results. The research reinforces the importance of catching ZZZs and highlights the negative influence of sleep deprivation on our ability to think and act. "When you don't sleep well, it affects your cognitive performance, which means your work performance and lots of other things," said Tim Althoff, who led the research during a summer 2016 internship with Microsoft's research organization in Redmond, Washington. For example, the study shows that people who sleep less than six hours for two consecutive nights are sluggish for the next six days.

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is the most promising and overhyped technology of our times. AI techniques such as deep learning have allowed computers to match or even beat world experts at games like chess and Go, and even board-certified doctors at diagnosing diabetic retinopathy and skin cancer. While AI is great for recognizing patterns in puzzles and pictures, it is much harder for AI to change the behavior of people, in all their fascinating and frustrating complexity. In an earlier post on the Keystone Habit, I introduced the concept of using goals and habit change loops for personal development. Now let's explore how to combine these loops for product development, in order to design a system to help someone change. Here, I argue that human intelligence is better applied to helping people form goals, while AI is better applied to helping people form habits.

With our hectic lifestyles, it's incredibly common to feel a dip in concentration at work. Research has shown that when we're not concentrating, our brain'turns off'. Spending too long switched off could lead to premature ageing and early-onset dementia. But by making small changes to your diet and lifestyle, you can make a real difference to your brain power in just one week. Nutritionist Amy Morris offers seven easy steps you can follow to perform at your best everyday.

Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.[1] It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but is more easily reversed than the state of hibernation or of being comatose. Mammalian sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two highly distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep. REM stands for "rapid eye movement" but involves many other aspects including virtual paralysis of the body. During sleep, most systems in an animal are in an anabolic state, building up the immune, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems. Sleep in non-human animals is observed in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and some fish, and, in some form, in insects and even in simpler animals such as nematodes. The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night in diurnal organisms (such as humans) and in the day in nocturnal organisms (such as rodents). However, sleep patterns vary among individual humans and even more widely among other species. In the last century, artificial light has in many areas of the world substantially altered sleep timing among both humans and many other species.[2] The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research.[3] Sleep seems to assist animals with improvements in the body and mind. A well-known feature of sleep in humans is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy. Sleep is sometimes confused with unconsciousness, but is quite different in terms of thought process. Humans may suffer from a number of sleep disorders. These include dyssomnias (such as insomnia, hypersomnia, and sleep apnea), parasomnias (such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder), bruxism, and the circadian rhythm sleep disorders. In mammals and birds, sleep is divided into two broad types: rapid eye movement (REM sleep) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM or non-REM sleep). Each type has a distinct set of physiological and neurological features associated with it. REM sleep is associated with dreaming, desynchronized and faster brain waves, loss of muscle tone,[4] and suspension of homeostasis[citation needed]. REM and non-REM sleep are so different that physiologists classify them as distinct behavioral states. In this view, REM, non-REM, and waking represent the three major modes of consciousness, neural activity, and physiological regulation.[5] According to the Hobson & McCarley activation-synthesis hypothesis, proposed in 1975–1977, the alternation between REM and non-REM can be explained in terms of cycling, reciprocally influential neurotransmitter systems.[6]