Performance on both a Trail Making test and a vigilance task did not differ as a function of the sleep stage from which S was aroused. However, performance on the vigilance task was poorer after awakenings from rapid eye-movement periods with higher eye-movement density than after awakenings from rapid eye-movement periods with lower eye-movement density.
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