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Internally-generated activity, non-episodic memory, and emotional salience in sleep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

James A. Bednar
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 jbednar@cs.utexas.edu www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbednar/

Abstract

(1) Substituting (as Solms does) forebrain for brainstem in the search for a dream “controller” is counterproductive, since a distributed system need have no single controller. (2) Evidence against episodic memory consolidation does not show that REM sleep has no role in other types of memory, contra Vertes & Eastman. (3) A generalization of Revonsuo's “threat simulation” model in reverse is more plausible and is empirically testable.

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

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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