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Your Interest in Sleep and Memory Posits a Semantic Learning Function to NREM Sleep. What Are Your Views of Associative Memory Enhancement by REM?

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Allan Hobson proposes a unique and highly inspiring model in which he composes a protoconsciousness during REM sleep by merging the physiological processes of REM sleep with introspections and formal analyses of dreaming. His “dream consciousness theory” serves a bouquet of new ideas on how dream-consciousness and wake-consciousness might be interrelated, and also provides a flavour of the (adaptive) function REM-related protoconsciousness provides for the waking consciousness, an issue of central interest to sleep research in the post-Darwin area. As we understand, Hobson suggests that the random and chaotic nature of brain activation during REM sleep allows for creating novel and creative associations in memory.

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Diekelmann, S., Born, J. (2014). Your Interest in Sleep and Memory Posits a Semantic Learning Function to NREM Sleep. What Are Your Views of Associative Memory Enhancement by REM?. In: Tranquillo, N. (eds) Dream Consciousness. Vienna Circle Institute Library, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07296-8_12

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