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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hobson, J. Allan
• Pace-Schott, Edward F.
• Stickgold, Robert

Titel

Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states

Ist Teil von

• The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000-12, Vol.23 (6), p.793-842

Ort / Verlag

England: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 mentation 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.