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Braz. j. med. biol. res
; 23(6/7): 617-20, 1990. ilus
Artigo
em Inglês
| LILACS
| ID: lil-92214
RESUMO
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