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Twitching in your sleep is more about mapping the brain than chasing rabbits

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Title
Twitching in your sleep is more about mapping the brain than chasing rabbits
Published by
The Conversation, October 2014
DOI 10.64628/ab.vqm6fekfc
Authors

Blumberg, Mark, Tiriac, Alexandre, Rio-Bermudez, Carlos, Alexandre Tiriac, Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez, Mark Blumberg

Abstract

In recent years scientists have discovered the many ways that the brain is activated during sleep. But we’re also beginning to see ways in which the body is activated during sleep, especially during rapid…

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Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 December 2022.
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#6,959,764
of 32,215,386 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#182,757
of 201,487 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#63,862
of 286,140 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#580
of 1,059 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,215,386 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 201,487 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.1. This one is in the 9th percentile – i.e., 9% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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