International Journal of Psychology
December 1, 1993
David Foulkes, Barbara Meier, Inge Strauch et al.
10 citations
Sixteen German‐English bilinguals were studied in a sleep laboratory for four nonconsecutive nights each. Half were native English speakers living in Zürich, and half native German speakers living in Atlanta. Presleep thought samples were solicited each evening and REM dream reports each night; subjects judged the waking appropriateness of their imagined speech and language phenomena, and also...
International Journal of Behavioral Development
December 1, 1990
David Foulkes, Michael Hollifield, Brenda Sullivan et al.
105 citations
Eighty children, 10 boys and 10 girls at each of four ages (5, 6, 7, and 8), were awakened from REM sleep on 10 occasions over the course of three nights in a sleep laboratory to report dreams. They also completed a variety of cognitive skill tests. In confirmation of an earlier, longitudinal study (Foulkes, 1982): Dreams were reported relatively seldom (median report rate of 20%); until age 7,...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1989
David Foulkes, Laura Bradley
9 citations
from REM awakenings are infrequent and, when present, qualitatively meager. We report here data from a cross-sectional project in which 10 boys and 10 girls were studied within a month of their birthdays at each of four ages, namely, 5, 6, 7, and 8 yr. Ten REM awakenings were scheduled for dream retrieval over three nonconsecutive nights, 10 mjn. following the initiation of REM periods...