Vigilance during sleep

Experiments were conducted to examine vigilance during sleep and to test some aspects of Snyder's (1966) theory of dreaming. This theory suggests that the function of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is to activate the organism and produce a sentinel awakening at the end of the REM period for the...

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Main Author: Langford, Geoffrey William
Published: Royal Holloway, University of London 1973
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704250