Assertion: hypnic jerk | /r/HasProperty | archaic reflex
Facets:
value: to the brain
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as a signal
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: A researcher at the University of Colorado suggested that a hypnic jerk could be "an archaic reflex to the brain's misinterpretation of muscle relaxation with the onset of sleep as a signal that a sleeping primate is falling out of a tree.
text: Frederick Coolidge, a psychologist at the University of Colorado, has suggested that a hypnic jerk could be "an archaic reflex to the brain's misinterpreting the muscle relaxation accompanying the onset of sleep as a signal that the sleeping primate is falling out of a tree.