title: Paradoxical sleep characteristics and cultural environment. Preliminary results.
abstract: The Temiars are a tribe of negroid pygmies of basically Proto-Malaysian affinities. Field-work in the Malaysian jungle provided some observations on the sleep-wakefulness cycle of two young Temiar adults. This cycle was monophasic circumstances permitting. Their rest-activity cycle at night was similar in the jungle and in the laboratory. Polygraphic total night-sleep recordings were made with both of them in the EEG laboratory in the Hospital Besar in Kuala Lumpur. The eye-movement frequencies of PS were compared with those from young adults of the West. Although the differences were not statistically significant, the Rem-densities of the Temiars were constantly at the low side. The significance of the results are being discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography; D004585:Electrooculography; D004777:Environment; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D010507:Periodicity; D012894:Sleep Stages; D012895:Sleep, REM; D013997:Time Factors; D014851:Wakefulness