Eye movements during REM sleep and imagination of visual scenes

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-49

  Sprenger, Andreas ^a   Lappe Osthege, Maren ^a   Talamo, Silke ^a   Gais, Steffen ^b   Kimmig, Hubert ^a,c   Helmchen, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dreams; Imagination; Rapid eye movement; Saccades; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74349089059     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32833370b2     Document Type: Article

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