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Tsushima Y, Sasaki Y, & Watanabe T. (2006)"Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor", Science, 314, 1786-1788.

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Takeuchi T, Fukuda K, Sasaki Y, Inugami M, Murphy T.(2002)"Factors related to the occurrence of isolated sleep paralysis elicited during a multi-phasic sleep-wake schedule",Sleep25:89-96.

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Sasaki Y, Fukuda K, Takeuchi T, Inugami M, Miyasita A.(2000) "Sleep onset REM period appearance rate is affected by REM propensity in circadian rhythm in normal nocturnal sleep", Clinical Neurophysiology 111: 428-433.

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