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Sleep and dreaming : scientific advances and reconsiderations /

This book reviews and bridges the gap between the fields of sleep and dreaming as they relate to research. It presents five papers by leading scientists, and more than seventy-five commentaries on those papers by nearly all of the other leading authorities in the field.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pace-Schott, Edward F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Dreaming and the brain : toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states / J.A. Hobson, E.F. Pace-Schott and R. Stickgold
  • 2. Dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms / M. Solms
  • 3. A review of mentation in REM and NREM sleep : 'covert' REM sleep as a possible reconciliation of two opposing models / T.A. Nielsen
  • 4. The case against memory consolidation in REM sleep / R.P. Vertes and K.E. Eastman
  • 5. The reinterpretation of dreams : an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming A. Revonsuo.