Abstract
Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique (REST) has been found to be somewhat difficult to classify in terms of any one theoretical model (Suedfeld, 1980). Yet the usefulness of a given procedure is enhanced by its inclusion within the context of a model that fairly well describes the phenomenon. In the last 15 or so years a model of the brain based in part on the work of Roger Sperry and his associates has evolved to the point where one might attempt to apply it to REST.
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Budzynski, T.H. (1990). Hemispheric Asymmetry and REST. In: Suedfeld, P., Turner, J.W., Fine, T.H. (eds) Restricted Environmental Stimulation. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9701-4_1
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