Ecological role of sleep in maintaining optimal brain function in birds

这个项目旨在解释睡眠的功能。睡眠被认为是维持最佳的大脑功能，以支持清醒的认知。几乎所有的睡眠研究都是以实验室为基础的，无法真实地捕捉动物如何从睡眠中获益。生态学家将睡眠视为一种简单的行为，而不是一种异质的神经生理状态，而神经科学家通常无法欣赏生态和进化系统提供的见解。该项目采用跨学科的方法，将动物行为，生态学，进化，人为干扰和睡眠神经生理学结合在一起。通过这样做，该项目将增加对睡眠功能的理解的新维度。

This project aims to explain the function of sleep. Sleep is thought to maintain optimal brain functioning to support waking cognition. Nearly all sleep research is laboratory-based, which fails to realistically capture how animals benefit from sleep. Ecologists treat sleep as a simple behaviour, instead of as a heterogeneous neurophysiological state, while neuroscientists generally fail to appreciate the insights ecological and evolutionary systems offer. This project adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, bringing together animal behaviour, ecology, evolution, anthropogenic disturbance and sleep neurophysiology. By doing so, the project will add a new dimension of understanding on the functions of sleep.