Paul Whitney

Biography

Research Interests

• Memory, Affect, and Decision Making
• Sleep Deprivation Effects on Cognition

I am engaged in collaborative research in cognition and cognitive neuroscience that focuses on the role of working memory and affective processing in executive function, memory, and decision making. Our investigations have included studies of how risky decision making is affected by situational factors, particularly sleep deprivation, that can temporarily alter the integration of hot emotional and cold cognitive information.

Selected Publications

• Campbell, I.C., Kurinec, C.A., Zhang, Z.Y. Cruz-Basilio, A., Figueroa, J.G. Bottom, V.B., Whitney, P., Hinson, J.M., & Van Dongen, H.P.A. (2024), Sleep restriction and age effects on distinct aspects of cognition in adolescents. Sleep, 47, 1-13.
• Whitney, P., Kurinec, C., & Hinson, J. (2023). Temporary Amnesia from Sleep Loss (TASL): A Framework for Understanding Consequences of Sleep Deprivation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 508.
• Denney, J. T., Zamora-Kapoor, A., Hansen, D. A., & Whitney, P. (2023). Race/ethnicity, sleep duration, and mortality risk in the United States. SSM-Population Health, 21, 101350.
• Stenson, A. R., Whitney, P., Hinson, J. M., Hansen, D. A., Lawrence‐Sidebottom, D., Skeiky, L., … & Van Dongen, H. P. (2023). Effects of total sleep deprivation on components of top‐down attentional control using a flexible attentional control task. Journal of Sleep Research, 32(2), e13744.
• Kurinec, C. A., Stenson, A. R., Hinson, J. M., Whitney, P., & Van Dongen, H. (2022). Electrodermal Activity Is Sensitive to Sleep Deprivation but Does Not Moderate the Effect of Total Sleep Deprivation on Affect. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.885302