DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00003976. Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states

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

10.1017/s0140525x00003976

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Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (56)

Abstract

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.

Bibliography

Hobson, J. A., Pace-Schott, E. F., & Stickgold, R. (2000). Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(6), 793â842.

Authors 3

J. Allan Hobson (first)
Edward F. Pace-Schott (additional)
Robert Stickgold (additional)

References 0 Referenced 621

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Dates

Type	When
Created	23 years, 1 month ago (July 27, 2002, 9:16 a.m.)
Deposited	6 years, 3 months ago (May 8, 2019, 3:59 p.m.)
Indexed	1 hour, 2 minutes ago (Sept. 7, 2025, 7:47 p.m.)
Issued	24 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2000)
Published	24 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2000)
Published Online	23 years, 11 months ago (Sept. 21, 2001)
Published Print	24 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2000)

Funders 0

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BibTeX

@article{Hobson_2000, title={Dreaming and the brain: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of conscious states}, volume={23}, ISSN={1469-1825}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00003976}, DOI={10.1017/s0140525x00003976}, number={6}, journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Hobson, J. Allan and Pace-Schott, Edward F. and Stickgold, Robert}, year={2000}, month=dec, pages={793–842} }

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