Ogilvie R D, Hunt H T, Sawicki C, Samahalskyi J
Sleep. 1982;5(1):11-27. doi: 10.1093/sleep/5.1.11.
Nine subjects each spent four nights in the sleep lab during which middle ear muscle activity (MEMA) was recorded in addition to standard sleep monitoring. After an adaptation night, subjects were awakened four times on each experimental night: twice from rapid eye movement sleep and twice from stage 2: once from each stage in the presence or absence of MEMA. Detailed mentation reports were obtained, coded, and rated on scales of auditory involvement, emotional activity, bizarreness, hallucinosis, and clouding. Sleep stage was a better predictor of the mental activity of the sleeper than was the presence or absence of phasic activity on the above measures. Auditory ratings were no higher following MEMA than following non-MEMA arousals, but MEMA was associated with bizarre, discontinuous sleep mentation. Theoretical implications were discussed.
九名受试者每人在睡眠实验室度过四个夜晚，在此期间，除了进行标准睡眠监测外，还记录了中耳肌肉活动（MEMA）。在适应一晚后，受试者在每个实验夜晚被唤醒四次：两次从快速眼动睡眠中唤醒，两次从第二阶段唤醒：在有或没有MEMA的情况下，各从每个阶段唤醒一次。获得了详细的思维报告，进行编码，并在听觉参与、情绪活动、怪诞性、幻觉症和意识模糊量表上进行评分。睡眠阶段比上述测量中是否存在相位活动更能预测睡眠者的心理活动。MEMA后的听觉评分并不比非MEMA唤醒后的评分高，但MEMA与怪异、不连续的睡眠思维有关。讨论了理论意义。
