Related Experiment Videos
Influence of the temperature signal on sleep in mammals
1Department of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. plparm@biocfarm.unibo.it
Biological Signals and Receptors
|October 12, 2000
Abstract:
The influence of the temperature signal on sleep may be considered physiologically specific if it entails thermoreceptor activation. Experimental evidence shows that sleep time peaks at neutral ambient temperature.