title: [Eye movements in sleep: towards a model].
abstract: The study of the REM-process by means of the oculomotor frequencies has shown that it is a stochastic point process. Therefore, the techniques utilized to quantify the time-dependency of this process were used. The structure of occurrence of REM's quantified by transition probability matrixes evidenced a two-state first order semi-Markov process. The oculo-motor configurations of REM-sleep revealed two independent entities, their number and their relative frequencies. This conclusion was used as a working hypothesis for the Spacelab 1 sleep-recording experiment in zero-gravity. The results confirmed the underlying hypothesis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004585:Electrooculography; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological; D011247:Pregnancy; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D013026:Space Flight; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D014893:Weightlessness
vernacular_title: Les mouvements oculaires du sommeil: vers un modéle.