Bowersox S S, Baker T L, Dement W C
Physiol Behav. 1984 Jun;32(6):907-9. doi: 10.1016/0031-9384(84)90276-2.
The aim of this study was to corroborate a previous report that, in cats kept on a 12:12-hr light-dark schedule, there is a highly significant negative correlation between the quantity of REM sleep in a 12-hr period and food intake in the subsequent 12-hr interval. Analyses of sleep-wake and food intake measures from freely behaving adult cats failed to disclose any consistent correlations between food consumption and REM sleep quantities in the same or adjacent 12-hr periods; amounts of waking (or total sleep) and slow-wave sleep also showed no consistent relationship to food intake. These findings question assertions that REM sleep participates directly in regulating the expression of motivated behaviors.
本研究的目的是证实先前的一份报告，即在维持12小时光照-12小时黑暗作息时间表的猫中，12小时内快速眼动睡眠量与随后12小时间隔内的食物摄入量之间存在高度显著的负相关。对自由活动的成年猫的睡眠-觉醒和食物摄入量测量结果进行分析后发现，在相同或相邻的12小时时间段内，食物消耗量与快速眼动睡眠量之间没有任何一致的相关性；清醒（或总睡眠）量和慢波睡眠量与食物摄入量也没有一致的关系。这些发现对快速眼动睡眠直接参与调节动机行为表达的说法提出了质疑。
