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THE DEGREE OF CONCORDANCE BETWEEN THE CONTENT OF SLEEP TALKING AND MENTATION RECALLED IN WAKEFULNESS
ARKIN, ARTHUR M. M.D.1; TOTH, MAX F. A.A.S.; BAKER, JULIA B.S.; HASTEY, JOHN M. M.S.2
112 East 97th Street, New York, New York 10029; Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York.
2Now at the Downstate University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Brooklyn, New York 11203.
Abstract
The content of 166 sleep speeches uttered by 28 paid chronic sleep talkers in the laboratory was compared to the content of wakeful mentation reports elicited shortly after utterances. Concordance between the two in varying degrees was discernible in 79.2% of rapid eye movement period, 45.8% of stage II and 21.1% of stage III–IV speech report pairs. Concordance tendencies were also studied on several varying experimental conditions.
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