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Critical brain characteristics to considerin developing dream and memory theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Adrian R. Morrison  and
Larry D. Sanford
Adrian R. Morrison
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Study of the Brain in Sleep, Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6045 armsleep@vet.upenn.edu
Larry D. Sanford
Affiliation:
Division of Anatomy, Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, P.O. Box 1980, Norfolk, VA 23501 anford@borg.evms.edu
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Abstract

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Dreaming in sleep must depend on the activity of the brain as does cognition and memory in wakefulness. Yet our understanding of the physiological subtleties of state differences may still be too primitive to guide theories adequately in these areas. One can state nonetheless unequivocally that the brain in REM is poorly equipped to practice for eventualities of wakefulness through dreaming, or for consolidating into memory the complex experiences of that state.

[Hobson et al., Nielsen, Solms, Vertes & Eastman, Revonsuo]

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Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 977 - 978
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press