Emerging topics in life sciences

The neurocognition of dreaming: key questions and foci.

Emerging topics in life sciences December 22, 2023 Caroline L. Horton

Until recently, understanding the neurobiology of dreaming has relied upon on correlating a subjective dream report with a measure of brain activity or function sampled from a different occasion. As such, most assumptions about dreaming come from the neuroscience of rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep from which many, but not all, dream reports are recalled. Core features of REM sleep (intense...