Sentences with phrase «characteristic of deep sleep»

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Occasionally, Hartshorne even speaks of a «besouled body,» but by such language he means only the probability of certain modes of action and experience that embody a given personality's characteristic traits.11 Consequently, he suggests that, when a person's body goes into a deep, dreamless sleep, the soul loses its actuality, only to regain it when the person awakens.12 Understandably, therefore, he disregards as inapplicable to his own view Gilbert Ryle's well - known caricature of Cartesian anthropological dualism as «the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine» — especially since Hartshorne denies that the human body is a «machine» in any materialistic, mechanical sense.13

After the initial months, babies gain the ability to sleep deeper and this eliminates much of the baby crying in sleep which is characteristic of infants.

At the University of Lübeck in Germany, neuroscientist Jan Born studies the deepest stage of sleep, known as the slow - wave stage because of its characteristic electrical rhythm.

Every time their brain signals settled into the slow - wave pattern characteristic of deep, dreamless sleep, the researchers sent a series of beeps through the headphones, gradually getting louder, until the participants» slow - wave patterns dissipated and they entered shallower sleep.

Working with a group of six sleeping men, Tononi and his team located a spot on the skull that they could zap to induce the brain waves characteristic of deep, non-REM sleep.