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Needed: A new theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2001
Abstract
Dream content is more coherent, consistent over time, and continuous with waking emotional concerns than most brainstem-driven theories of dreaming allow, but dreaming probably has no adaptive function. A new neurocognitive perspective focusing on the forebrain system of dream generation should begin with the findings on dream content in adults and the developmental nature of dreaming in children.
[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Revonsuo; Solms; Vertes & Eastman]
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