Behavioral tasks (reaction times to acoustic stimuli and finger lapping tasks) performed by normal subjects when sleepy or attempting to fall asleep have been used as indices of hemispheric asymmetries during the sleep onset period. Results show a stronger impairment of the left hemisphere (right hand) both in reacting to external stimuli and in sustaining endogenous motor programs. The left hemisphere seems to fall asleep earlier than the right hemisphere.
WHICH HEMISPHERE FALLS ASLEEP FIRST / Casagrande, Maria; Violani, Cristiano; DE GENNARO, Luigi; P., Braibanti; Bertini, Mario. - In: NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA. - ISSN 0028-3932. - STAMPA. - 33:7(1995), pp. 815-822. [10.1016/0028-3932(95)00004-m]
WHICH HEMISPHERE FALLS ASLEEP FIRST
CASAGRANDE, Maria;VIOLANI, Cristiano;DE GENNARO, Luigi;BERTINI, Mario
1995
Abstract
Behavioral tasks (reaction times to acoustic stimuli and finger lapping tasks) performed by normal subjects when sleepy or attempting to fall asleep have been used as indices of hemispheric asymmetries during the sleep onset period. Results show a stronger impairment of the left hemisphere (right hand) both in reacting to external stimuli and in sustaining endogenous motor programs. The left hemisphere seems to fall asleep earlier than the right hemisphere.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
