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AUTONOMIC CORRELATES OF EYE MOVEMENT BURSTS DURING STAGE REM SLEEP
Author(s) -
Spreng Lawrence F.,
Johnson Laverne C.,
Lubin Ardie
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1968.tb02773.x
Subject(s) - eye movement , psychology , rapid eye movement sleep , audiology , sleep (system call) , non rapid eye movement sleep , rem sleep behavior disorder , respiration , movement (music) , heart rate , neuroscience , electroencephalography , polysomnography , medicine , physics , blood pressure , anatomy , computer science , acoustics , operating system
During stage REM sleep, eye movements were found to be distributed in discrete bursts of rapid eye movement (REM‐bursts). REM‐burst time averaged approximately 10 percent of stage REM sleep and the rate within a subject was consistent from epoch‐to‐epoch and night‐to‐night. Consistent subject biases in eye movement direction were also found. Within subject correlations were obtained between REM‐burst time and autonomic activity. Significant positive correlations were found for respiration rate and number of finger pulse responses. There were positive but insignificant correlations with electrodermal activity, heart rate and decreases in respiration amplitude. Autonomic variability was not significantly associated with REM‐burst time.