RESEARCH_FILE
Colin A. Espie
University of Glasgow / University of Oxford
Known for:The attention–intention–effort pathway — the formal account of why trying to sleep blocks sleep.
Key findings
- 2002
In a major review, framed persistent insomnia as a failure of the normally automatic sleep process, setting up psychological rather than purely behavioural accounts of its persistence. Insomnia: Conceptual issues in the development, persistence, and treatment of sleep disorder in adults ↗
- 2006
With colleagues, proposed the attention–intention–effort pathway: selective attention to sleep, explicit intention to sleep, and sleep effort inhibit sleep-wake automaticity and develop psychophysiologic insomnia. The attention–intention–effort pathway in the development of psychophysiologic insomnia: A theoretical review ↗