Author: Goffredina Spanò, Lecturer in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Kingston University

Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Recent research on animal sleep behaviour has revealed that sleep is influenced by the animals around them. Olive baboons, for instance, sleep less as group sizes increase, while mice can synchronise their rapid eye movement (REM) cycles. In western society, many people expect to sleep alone, if not with a romantic partner. But […]