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Neural constraints on cognition in sleep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Helene Sophrin Porte
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853–7601 [email protected]

Abstract

Certain features of Stage NREM sleep – for example, rhythmic voltage oscillation in thalamic neurons – are physiologically inhospitable to “REM sleep processes.” In Stage 2, the sleep spindle and its refractory period must limit the incursion of “covert REM,” and thus the extent of REM-like cognition. If these hyperpolarization-dependent events also inform Stage NREM cognition, does a “1-gen” model suffice to account for REM-NREM differences?

[Nielsen]

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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