Mental activity after early afternoon nap awakenings in healthy subjects

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 361-368

  Palagini, Laura ^a   Gemignani, Angelo ^a   Feinberg, Irwin ^b   Guazzelli, Mario ^a   Campbell, Ian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG computer analysis; Humans; Mental activity; Nap; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DREAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REM SLEEP; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DREAMS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 3042699457     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2003.12.008     Document Type: Article

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