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On the relationship between motor-activity and the sleep wake cycle in humans during temporal isolation

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Aschoff,  Jürgen
Emeritus, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Max Planck Society;
Verhaltensphysiologie, Seewiesen, Max Planck Institut für Ornithologie, Max Planck Society;

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Aschoff, J. (1993). On the relationship between motor-activity and the sleep wake cycle in humans during temporal isolation. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 8(1), 33-46. doi:10.1177/074873049300800103.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-17FD-C
Abstract
In the free-running circadian rhythms of 14 human subjects (4 females, 10 males) who lived singly in an isolation unit without temporal clues, locomotor activity was recorded by means of contact plates installed below the carpet in the main room. During sleep, movements in bed were picked up by spring contacts attached to the mattress. In all subjects, the hourly means of locomotion during wakefulness (alpha) were negatively correlated with the duration of alpha to such an extent that the total amount of locomotion per cycle remained constant when alpha varied from 14 to 23 hr. The hourly values of movements in bed were independent of the duration of sleep (rho), so that the total number of movements was almost proportional to rho. The ''homeostatic control'' of locomotion during wake time is considered as a means to conserve energy when the duration of wakefulness increases.