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REM sleep: Desperately seeking isomorphism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Irwin Feinberg
Irwin Feinberg
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis and VA Northern California Health Care System, Davis, CA 95616 [email protected]
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Abstract

If reports given on experimental awakenings validly represent mental activity that was underway before the awakening, REM sleep is neither necessary nor sufficient for dreaming. Another intuitively attractive hypothesis for its function – that REM consolidates or otherwise modifies memory traces acquired while awake – is not supported by the preponderant evidence. There is growing acceptance of the possibility that REM functions to support sleep rather than waking brain processes.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Solms; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 931 - 934
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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