Publications of Niels Christian Rattenborg

Newman, S. M.; Paletz, E. M.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Benca, R. M.: Sleep deprivation in the pigeon using the Disk-Over-Water method. Physiology & Behavior 93 (1-2), pp. 50 - 58 (2008)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.; Scriba, M. F.: A bird's eye view of sleep. Science 322 (5901), p. 527 - 527 (2008)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Voirin, B.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Kays, R. W.; Spoelstra, K.; Kuemmeth, F.; Heidrich, W.; Wikelski, M.: Sleeping outside the box: Electroencephalographic measures of sleep in sloths inhabiting a rainforest. Biology Letters 4 (4), pp. 402 - 405 (2008)

Lima, S. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: A behavioural shutdown can make sleeping safer: A strategic perspective on the function of sleep. Animal Behaviour 74 (2), pp. 189 - 197 (2007)

Rattenborg, N. C.: Response to commentary on evolution of slow-wave sleep and palliopallial connectivity in mammals and birds: A hypothesis. Brain Research Bulletin 72 (4-6), pp. 187 - 193 (2007)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lima, S. L.: The non-trivial functions of sleep. Sleep Medicine Reviews 11 (5), pp. 405 - 409 (2007)

Rattenborg, N. C.: Evolution of slow-wave sleep and palliopallial connectivity in mammals and birds: A hypothesis. Brain Research Bulletin 69 (1), pp. 20 - 29 (2006)

Rattenborg, N. C.: Do birds sleep in flight? Die Naturwissenschaften 93 (9), pp. 413 - 425 (2006)

Rattenborg, N. C.: Schlaf und Flug. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2006)

Lima, S. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.; Amlaner, C. J.: Sleeping under the risk of predation. Animal Behaviour 70 (4), pp. 723 - 736 (2005)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Vacha, E.; Benca, R. M.: Acute effects of light and darkness on sleep in the pigeon (Columba livia). Physiology & Behavior 84 (4), pp. 635 - 640 (2005)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Mandt, B. H.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Winsauer, P. J.; Huber, R.; Wikelski, M.; Benca, R. M.: Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). PLoS Biology 2 (7), pp. 924 - 936 (2004)

Wikelski, M.; Wong, V.; Chevalier, B.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Snell, H.: Galapagos islands: Marine iguanas die from trace oil pollution. Nature 417 (6889), pp. 607 - 608 (2002)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Unilateral eye closure and interhemispheric EEG asymmetry during sleep in the pigeon (Columba livia). Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 58 (6), pp. 323 - 332 (2001)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Behavioral, neurophysiological and evolutionary perspectives on unihemispheric sleep. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24 (8), pp. 817 - 842 (2000)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lima, S. L.; Amlaner, C. J.: Facultative control of avian unihemispheric sleep under the risk of predation. Behavioural Brain Research 105 (2), pp. 163 - 172 (1999)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lima, S. L.; Amlaner, C. J.: Half-awake to the risk of predation. Nature 397 (6718), pp. 397 - 398 (1999)

Blumberg, M. S.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Decomposing the evolution of sleep: Comparative and developmental approaches. In: Evolution of nervous systems, Vol. 3, 2 Ed., pp. 523 - 545 (Ed. Kaas, J.). Elsevier, Oxford (2017)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep in birds. In: Encyclopedia of sleep, pp. 51 - 56 (Ed. Kushida, C. A.). Academic Press, Oxford (2013)

Rattenborg, N. C.: Convergent evolution of REM sleep in mammals and birds. In: Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams, pp. 169 - 171 (Eds. Barrett, D.; McNamara, P.). Greenwood, Santa Barbara (2012)