Interhemispheric asynchrony of the sleep EEG in northern fur seals

• DOI: 10.1007/bf01952128
• Publication Date: 2005-07-31T22:00:49Z
• Authors: L. M. Mukhametov; O. I. Lyamin; I. G. Polyakova
• Keywords: Male; 0301 basic medicine; 03 medical and health sciences; Fur Seals; Animals; Brain; Electroencephalography; Female; Sleep; Functional Laterality; Caniformia

In northern fur seals the two brain hemispheres can generate the EEG slow waves during sleep not only simultaneously, as in all the terrestrial mammals investigated, but also independently as in dolphins.