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How and why the brain makes dreams: A report card on current research on dreaming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Rosalind Cartwright
Rosalind Cartwright
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Sleep Disorder Service and Research Center, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago IL 60612 rcartwri@rush.edu
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Abstract

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The target articles in this volume address the three major questions about dreaming that have been most responsible for the delay in progress in this field over the past 25 years. These are: (1) Where in the brain is dreaming produced, given that dream reports can be elicited from sleep stages other than REM? (2) Do dream plots have any intrinsic meaning? (3) Does dreaming serve some specialized function? The answers offered here when added together support a new model of dreaming that is testable, and should revitalize this area of study.

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

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 914 - 916
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press