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ERIC Number: EJ730558
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Apr
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-2626
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An Assessment of Sleep Architecture as a Function of Degree of Handedness in College Women Using a Home Sleep Monitor
Propper, Ruth E.; Lawton, Nicole; Przyborski, Matt; Christman, Stephen D.
Brain and Cognition, v54 n3 p186-197 Apr 2004
The present study examined sleep architecture as a function of handedness in a population of undergraduate college women using a home sleep monitor. Compared to strongly handed individuals, participants with a tendency toward mixed-handedness had a shorter sleep latency and spent a greater percentage of their sleep period asleep and less awake. Increasing mixed-handedness was also associated with increased NREM; strong-handedness was associated with increased REM. Results are placed in a neurophysiological framework wherein corpus callosum mediated differences in interhemispheric interaction during Wake, REM, and NREM on the one hand, and individual differences in corpus callosum morphology and hemispheric communication as a function of handedness on the other, interact to result in handedness differences in sleep architecture.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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