Night-time right hemisphere superiority and daytime left hemisphere superiority: A repatterning of laterality across wake-sleep-wake states

Biological Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 337-342

  Casagrande, Maria ^a   Bertini, Mario ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Awakening; Cerebral hemispheres; Finger tapping task; Sleep; Sleep onset; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; FINGER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 39249083378     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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