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David Foulkes

11 papers in the library · 266 citations · publishing 1964-1994

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Point of View in Nocturnal Dreaming

Perceptual and Motor Skills April 1, 1994 David Foulkes, Nancy H. Kerr 9 citations

Most nocturnal dream reports of 4 young-adult subjects were of events reported to have been experienced from an own-eyes perspective. The alternative, see-oneself, perspective seems to be incompatible with full dream elaboration. This may help to explain the primitive form of dreaming in early development, when children are unable to imagine their own active participation in dream events.

Linguistic Phenomena and Language Selection in the REM Dreams of German‐English Bilinguals

International Journal of Psychology December 1, 1993 David Foulkes, Barbara Meier, Inge Strauch et al. 10 citations

Sixteen German‐English bilinguals were studied in a sleep laboratory for four nonconsecutive nights each. Half were native English speakers living in Zürich, and half native German speakers living in Atlanta. Presleep thought samples were solicited each evening and REM dream reports each night; subjects judged the waking appropriateness of their imagined speech and language phenomena, and also...

REM Dreaming and Cognitive Skills at Ages 5-8: A Cross-sectional Study

International Journal of Behavioral Development December 1, 1990 David Foulkes, Michael Hollifield, Brenda Sullivan et al. 105 citations

Eighty children, 10 boys and 10 girls at each of four ages (5, 6, 7, and 8), were awakened from REM sleep on 10 occasions over the course of three nights in a sleep laboratory to report dreams. They also completed a variety of cognitive skill tests. In confirmation of an earlier, longitudinal study (Foulkes, 1982): Dreams were reported relatively seldom (median report rate of 20%); until age 7,...

Phasic Activity and Dream Recall in 5- to 8-Yr.-Olds

Perceptual and Motor Skills August 1, 1989 David Foulkes, Laura Bradley 9 citations

from REM awakenings are infrequent and, when present, qualitatively meager. We report here data from a cross-sectional project in which 10 boys and 10 girls were studied within a month of their birthdays at each of four ages, namely, 5, 6, 7, and 8 yr. Ten REM awakenings were scheduled for dream retrieval over three nonconsecutive nights, 10 mjn. following the initiation of REM periods...

Appropriateness of dream feelings to dreamed situations

Cognition & Emotion March 1, 1988 David Foulkes, Brenda Sullivan, Nancy H. Kerr et al. 51 citations

Affect appropriateness was determined for representatively sampled (REM) dream reports. Seventeen young adults were studied for two nights each. The following data were collected: dream reports; accounts of feelings experienced while dreaming; judgements of feelings appropriate to the dreamed situations had they occurred in wakefulness; and ratings of the correspondence of dream and...

The Structure of Laboratory Dream Reports in Blind and Sighted Subjects

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease May 1, 1982 Nancy H. Kerr, David Foulkes, Marcella Schmidt 82 citations

Ten college-educated young adults (four sighted, four congenitally blind, and two adventitiously blind) were studied in a sleep laboratory one night a week for 8 weeks. Dream reports were collected from electroencephalogram-defined sleep onset, rapid eye movement sleep, and non-rapid eye movement sleep, following a standard awakening schedule and interview format. Dream reports were analyzed in...

Right hemispheric mediation of dream visualization: a case study.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior December 1, 1981 N H Kerr, D Foulkes

Our paper addresses, as did a recent study by Greenwood et al. (1977), the question of differential right vs. left hemispheric involvement in REM-sleep dreaming. A male subject with extensive lesioning of the right hemisphere and consequent contralateral homonymous hemianopia was studied for 2 nights in a sleep laboratory where a dream report was collected following each of 6 awakenings from...

ELECTROMYOGRAM SUPPRESSION DURING SLEEP, DREAM RECALL, AND ORIENTATION TIME

Psychophysiology March 1, 1969 James D. Larson, David Foulkes

ABSTRACTFive subjects had their nocturnal sleep monitored (EEG, EOG, submental EMG) for a total of 42 nights. A total of 196 awakenings to retrieve sleep mentation was distributed among three awakening categories: Non‐Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep before the EMG suppression heralding REM‐sleep onset; NREM sleep immediately following the EMG suppression heralding REM‐sleep onset; and early...

"Dream Deprivation": Effects on Dream Content

Science September 9, 1966 Terry Pivik, David Foulkes

Dream content elicited following the selective deprivation of rapid-eye-movement sleep was intensified compared to that elicited under nondeprivation conditions. This effect was observed both for repressers and for sensitizers, but was significant only for repressers. On nondeprivation nights, the dream periods of sensitizers were shorter and their dreams more intense than those of repressers.

Effect of Visual Stimuli on Dream Content

Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 1965 Allan Rechtschaffen, David Foulkes

Three S s slept with their eyes taped open and their pupils chemically dilated while stages of sleep were monitored by EEG and eye movement recordings. Various objects were illuminated in front of S s' open eyes. Shortly following the stimulus presentations, S s were awakened and reports of dream experiences and other imagery during sleep were obtained. Although there were occasional instances...

Presleep Determinants of Dream Content: Effects of Two Films

Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1964 David Foulkes, Allan Rechtschaffen

Twenty-four S s were exposed to controlled presleep stimuli. On one experimental night, they saw a violent episode, on the other, a nonviolent episode, from a TV western series. Dreams were collected using Dement and Kleitman's electrophysiological methods, by means of which rapid eye movement (REM) periods were used to identify “dream” periods. REM reports following the violent episode were...