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The interpretation of physiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Barbara E. Jones
Barbara E. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, and Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 [email protected]
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Abstract

Not at all self-evident, the so-called isomorphisms between the phenomenology and physiology of dreams have been interpreted by Hobson et al. in an arbitrary manner to state that dreams are stimulated by chaotic brainstem stimulation (an assumption also adopted by Vertes & Eastman). I argue that this stimulation is not chaotic at all; nor does it occur in the absence of control from the cerebral cortex, which contributes complexity to brainstem activity as well as meaningful information worth consolidating in the brain during sleep.

[Hobson et al.; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 955 - 956
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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