Journal ArticleDOI
REM sleep - by default?
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Three old, overlapping theories of REM sleep (REM) function, the Ontogenetic, Homeostatic and Phylogenetic hypotheses, together still provide a plausible framework - that REM is directed towards early cortical development, "tones up" the sleeping cortex, can substitute for wakefulness, and has a calming effect.About:
This article is published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.The article was published on 2000-12-01. It has received 92 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Non-rapid eye movement sleep & Rapid eye movement sleep.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The role of sleep in learning and memory.
TL;DR: Evidence for the influence of sleep discharge patterns on memory traces remains fragmentary and the underlying role of sleep in learning and memory has yet to be precisely characterized.
Journal ArticleDOI
Clues to the functions of mammalian sleep
TL;DR: The functions of mammalian sleep remain unclear, but theories suggest a role for non-rapid eye movement sleep in energy conservation and in nervous system recuperation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing
TL;DR: Evidence supports a role for sleep in the consolidation of an array of learning and memory tasks and new methodologies allow the experimental manipulation of dream content at sleep onset, permitting an objective and scientific study of this dream formation and a renewed search for the possible functions of dreaming and the biological processes subserving it.
Journal ArticleDOI
The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis
TL;DR: The evidence for the hypothesis that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep has an important role in memory consolidation is reviewed and found to be weak and contradictory.
Journal ArticleDOI
Sleeping brain, learning brain. The role of sleep for memory systems
TL;DR: These studies convincingly support the idea that sleep is deeply involved in memory functions in humans and animals and confirm or reject unequivocally the recently upheld hypothesis that consolidations of non-declarative and declarative memories are respectively dependent upon REM and NREM sleep processes.
References
More filters
Book
Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine
TL;DR: Part 1: Normal Sleep and Its Variations; Part 2: Abnormal Sleep.
Journal ArticleDOI
A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions
J. S. Morris,Chris D. Frith,David I. Perrett,Duncan Rowland,Andrew W. Young,Andrew J. Calder,Raymond J. Dolan +6 more
TL;DR: Direct in vivo evidence of a differential neural response in the human amygdala to facial expressions of fear and happiness is reported, providing direct evidence that the humangdala is engaged in processing the emotional salience of faces, with a specificity of response to fearful facial expressions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Synchronization of cortical activity and its putative role in information processing and learning
TL;DR: The first measurements of the electrical activity of the brain revealed prominent oscillatory activity, and until more recently the analysis of oscillatory patterns in the electroencephalogram and in field potentials recorded with intracerebral macroelectrodes has remained a major research tool of neuro physiology.