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Mairesse, Olivier; Neu, Daniel; Migeotte, Pierre-Francois; Pattyn, Nathalie; Hofmans, Joeri; Theuns, Peter; Cluydts, Raymond; De Valck, Elke – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Sleep-wake behavior, as well as sleepiness, is regulated by the joint action of an exponentially increasing drive for sleep--sleep homeostasis--and by variations in sleep propensity due to a biological circadian oscillator. However, large inter-individual differences remain. Short and long sleepers have been known to differ in the amount of…
Descriptors: Sleep, Physiology, Biology, Behavior Patterns