REM Dreaming and Cognitive Skills at Ages 5-8: A Cross-sectional Study
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,...