7 subjects, aged 19 to 25 yr., who evoked syntactic verbal material in the report made after awakening during REM sleep, were asked to reproduce it a few minutes later. No big differences had been observed between the two recalls; all recalled verbal materials, many sentences and kernel-sentences reappeared in the second recall; the most complex units were the best reproduced. These results indicate a good consolidation of the material obtained after awakenings during REM sleep.
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