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SLEEP PATTERNS IN CHILDREN OF SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE
Author(s) -
Busby K.,
Pivik R. T.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00134.x
Subject(s) - non rapid eye movement sleep , psychology , eye movement , audiology , sleep (system call) , wakefulness , developmental psychology , rapid eye movement sleep , intelligence quotient , vigilance (psychology) , sleep stages , polysomnography , electroencephalography , cognition , psychiatry , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , medicine , computer science , operating system
SUMMARY To examine the relationship between superior intellectual functioning and physiological patterns and events during sleep, male children (8–12 years old) of superior (x̄ IQ: 133.3) and average (x̄ IQ: 111.0) intelligence were recorded for five consecutive nights using standard electrographic measures. Compared to normal controls, superior IQ subjects had greater amounts of TST, stage 2, stage 3, total NREM sleep, a longer average NREM cycle length and significantly less average REM density. In addition, significant negative relationships were obtained between full‐scale IQ and REM density, and between verbal IQ and REM density. The results suggest that patterns and amounts of sleep stages in superior IQ children do not differ in any dramatic fashion from those of children with average IQ. However, the negative correlations between IQ measures and eye movement density during REM sleep are consonant with previous notions relating eye movement density to waking information processing strategies and suggest a carry‐over of such strategies from wakefulness to sleep.