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Phylogenetic data bearing on the REM sleep learning connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

J. M. Siegel
J. M. Siegel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and University of California at Los Angeles, Neurobiology Research 151A3, Sepulveda VAMC, North Hills, CA 91343 jsiegel@ucla.edu www.bol.ucla.edu/~jsiegel/
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Abstract

The phylogenetic data are inconsistent with the hypothesis that REM sleep duration is correlated with learning or learning ability. Humans do not have uniquely high amounts of REM sleep. The platypus, marsupials, and other mammals not generally thought to have extraordinary learning abilities have the largest amounts of REM sleep. The whales and dolphins (cetaceans) have the lowest amounts of REM sleep and may go without REM sleep for extended periods of time, despite their prodigious learning abilities.

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Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 1007
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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