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==Causes== Microsleeps frequently occur as a result of [[sleep deprivation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-you-should-know-about-microsleep | title=What You Should Know About Microsleep }}</ref> However, individuals who are not sleep-deprived or tired can also experience microsleeps during monotonous tasks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Poudel |first1=GR |last2=Innes |first2=CR |last3=Bones |first3=PJ |last4=Watts |first4=R |last5=Jones |first5=RD |title=Losing the struggle to stay awake: divergent thalamic and cortical activity during microsleeps. |journal=Human Brain Mapping |date=January 2014 |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=257β69 |doi=10.1002/hbm.22178 |pmid=23008180|pmc=6869765 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moller |first1=Henry J. |last2=Kayumov |first2=Leonid |last3=Bulmash |first3=Eric L. |last4=Nhan |first4=Jonathan |last5=Shapiro |first5=Colin M. |title=Simulator performance, microsleep episodes, and subjective sleepiness: normative data using convergent methodologies to assess driver drowsiness |journal=Journal of Psychosomatic Research |date=September 2006 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=335β342 |doi=10.1016/j.jpsychores.2006.04.007|pmid=16938511 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peiris |first1=Malik T. R. |last2=Jones |first2=Richard D. |last3=Davidson |first3=Paul R. |last4=Carroll |first4=Grant J. |last5=Bones |first5=Philip J. |title=Frequent lapses of responsiveness during an extended visuomotor tracking task in non-sleep-deprived subjects |journal=Journal of Sleep Research |date=September 2006 |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=291β300 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2869.2006.00545.x|pmid=16911031 |s2cid=4667760 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Innes |first1=Carrie |last2=R Poudel |first2=Govinda |last3=Signal |first3=T. |last4=Jones |first4=Richard |title=2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology |chapter=Behavioural microsleeps in normally-rested people |date=2010 |volume=2010 |pages=4448β51 |doi=10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5625953 |pmid=21095768|isbn=978-1-4244-4123-5 |s2cid=12213583 }}</ref><ref name="Chou, Y. H. 2011">Chou, Y. H., Chuang, C. C., Zao, J. K., Ko, L. W., & Lin, C. T. (2011, August). An fMRI study of abrupt-awake episodes during behavioral microsleeps. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 5060-5063). IEEE.</ref>
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