How Adversarial REM Dreams May Facilitate Creativity, and Why We Become Aware of Them
Clinical and Translational Neuroscience June 26, 2024 Nicolas Deperrois, Mihai A. Petrovici, Jakob Jordan et al. 2 citations
The importance of sleep for healthy brain function is widely acknowledged. However, it remains unclear how the internal generation of dreams might facilitate cognitive processes. In this perspective, we review a computational approach inspired by artificial intelligence that proposes a framework for how dreams occurring during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep can contribute to learning and...