Dolphins Can Maintain Vigilant Behavior through Echolocation for 15 Days without Interruption or Cognitive Impairment

In dolphins, natural selection has developed unihemispheric sleep where alternating hemispheres of their brain stay awake. This allows dolphins to maintain consciousness in response to respiratory demands of the ocean. Unihemispheric sleep may also allow dolphins to maintain vigilant states over lon...

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Autores principales: Branstetter, Brian K., Finneran, James J., Fletcher, Elizabeth A., Weisman, Brian C., Ridgway, Sam H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23082170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047478

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