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Dreaming and the Brain: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Conscious States
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Hobson, J. Allan, Pace-Schott, Edward and Stickgold, Robert (2000) Dreaming and the Brain: Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Conscious States.
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Short Abstract:
Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM and between REM and waking mentation. Recent neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies also differentiate REM, NREM and waking in features with phenomenological implications. Both evidence and theory suggest that there are isomorphisms between the phenomenology and the physiology of dreams. We present a three-dimensional model with specific examples from normally and abnormally changing conscious states.
Long Abstract:
Sleep researchers in different disciplines disagree about how fully dreaming can be explained in terms of brain physiology. Debate has focused on whether REM sleep dreaming is qualitatively different from nonREM (NREM) sleep and waking. A review of psychophysiological studies shows clear quantitative differences between REM and NREM and between REM and waking mentation. Recent neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies also differentiate REM, NREM and waking in features with phenomenological implications. Both evidence and theory suggest that there are isomorphisms between the phenomenology and the physiology of dreams. We present a three-dimensional model with specific examples from normally and abnormally changing conscious states.
| Keywords: | Consciousness, Sleep, Dreaming, Neuroimaging, Neuromodulation, Phenomenology, Qualia, REM, NREM |
| Subjects: | Psychology: Cognitive Psychology Psychology: Consciousness Studies Neuroscience: Neural Modelling BBS Special Issues: Sleep and Dreaming |
| ID code: | bbs00000544 |
| Deposited by: | Allan Hobson |
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