What Does the Sleeping Brain Say? Syntax and Semantics of Sleep Talking in Healthy Subjects and in Parasomnia Patients

Speech is a complex function in humans, but the linguistic characteristics of sleep talking are unknown. We analyzed sleep-associated speech in adults, mostly (92%) during parasomnias. The utterances recorded during night-time video-polysomnography were analyzed for number of words, propositions and...

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Published in:	Sleep (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 40; no. 11
Main Authors:	Arnulf, Isabelle, Uguccioni, Ginevra, Gay, Frederick, Baldayrou, Etienne, Golmard, Jean-Louis, Gayraud, Frederique, Devevey, Alain
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Oxford University Press 01.11.2017
Subjects:	Adult Aged Brain - physiopathology Conflict (Psychology) Female Healthy Volunteers Humanities and Social Sciences Humans Male Middle Aged Night Terrors - physiopathology Parasomnias - physiopathology Polysomnography REM Sleep Behavior Disorder - physiopathology Semantics Sleep Sleep Apnea Syndromes - physiopathology Sleep, REM Somnambulism - physiopathology Speech - physiology Wakefulness - physiology linguistics verbal abuse sleepwalking sleep talking syntax language semantics REM sleep behavior disorder
ISSN:	0161-8105, 1550-9109, 1550-9109
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