Eugene Aserinsky
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'''Eugene Aserinsky''' (1921 – [[22 July]] [[1998]]) was a graduate student at [[University of Chicago]] in 1953 when he discovered [[REM sleep]]. He made the discovery after hours spent studying the eyelids of sleeping subjects. His PhD adviser, [[Nathaniel Kleitman]], and Aserinsky went on to demonstrate that this "rapid-eye movement" was correlated with [[dream]]ing and a general increase in [[brain]] activity. They pioneered procedures that have now been used with thousands of volunteers using the [[electroencephalograph]]. Because of these discoveries, Aserinsky and Kleitman are generally considered the founders of modern sleep research.
==References==
* Psychology Seventh Edition Modules by David G. Myers
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