Ethology of Sleep Studied with Time-Lapse Photography: Postural Immobility and Sleep-Cycle Phase in Humans
- 29 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 201 (4362) , 1251-1253
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.694515
Abstract
Human sleep is characterized by episodes of immobility punctuated by major postural shifts. The organization of this motor activity was shown with a combination of photographic and electroencephalographic recording to be periodic and related to the electroencephalographic sleep cycle. The amount of immobility as measured photographically was positively related to subjective estimates of the goodness of sleep.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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