2 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2006-2024
SLEEP Advances 2024 Erin J. Wamsley, Tempest Trost, Matthew A. Tucker 2 citations
Robert Stickgold's research was among the earliest to rigorously quantify the effect of learning on dream content. As a result, we learned that dreaming is influenced by the activation of newly formed memory traces in the sleeping brain. Exactly how this happens is an ongoing area of investigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that participants are especially likely to dream of recent...
Brain Research Bulletin October 30, 2006 Erin J. Wamsley, Yasutaka Hirota, Matthew A. Tucker et al.
The dual rhythm model of dreaming states that, under high sensory thresholds, heightened general cortical activation common to both REM/NREM and circadian-driven activation cycles sums to produce the main characteristics of dreaming. In addition, the unique pattern of regional brain activation characteristic of REM sleep amplifies the emotional intensity of the dream. Subjects were awakened...