Rostrum movements in desynchronized sleep as a prevalent manifestation of dreaming activity in wistar rats
Braz. j. med. biol. res
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23(6/7): 617-20, 1990. ilus
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| ID: lil-92214
ABSTRACT
Considering that eye movements express visual dreams in humans and are prominent during desynchronized sleep in cats, monkeys and birds, rostrum movements were investigated in a macrosmatic species, the rat, to the hypothesis that, expressisng olfactory and tactile (involving the vibrissae) dreams, they would prevail over eye movements. Desynchronized sleep episodes lasted 148.8 ñ 12.4 s, rostrum movements lasted 80.7 ñ 6.9 s and eye movements occurred during 40.4 ñ 3.9 s, all in accordance with the original hypothesis:
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1990
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