EvolutionJune 1, 2019
Meet the Animals That Literally Sleep with One Eye Open
Why dolphins, seals and other animals developed the capacity to sleep with half their brain awake
Stories by Gian Gastone Mascetti
Gian Gastone Mascetti is a senior scholar of neurophysiology in the department of general psychology at the University of Padova in Italy, where he retired as a professor of neurophysiology. His research interests are focused on sleep, particularly the relation between sleep and brain lateralization.