Lesions to the ______ have resulted in cats acting out their REM dreams, as they lacked the atonia typically seen in this phase of sleep.

A. parafacial zone of the medulla
B. ventrolateral preoptic nucleus
C. sublaterodorsal nucleus of pons
D. forebrain arousal center


Answer: C

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