Dream Recall and Short-Term Memory
Perceptual and Motor Skills December 1, 1971 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1971.33.3.867 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Dreaming |
| Key findings | Psychological variables such as anxiety, repression, and cognitive style have little or no relationship to dream recall frequency and amount, unlike psychophysiological variables. |
Abstract
In comparison to psychophysiological variables such as stage of sleep and auditory arousal thresholds, psychological variables such as anxiety, “repression,” and cognitive style have demonstrated little or no relationship to frequency and amount of dream recall. Two studies yielded no support for an hypothesized correlation between amount of dream recall and short-term memory for verbally or visually encoded material. These and related findings are consonant with the infrequency of empirically demonstrated strong relationships between personality variables and amount of dream recall.
Comparable studies
Other narrative reviews on dreaming, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming | 2019 | Review | |
| Sleep and dreaming are for important matters | 2013 | Review | |
| Nightmare Disorder and Isolated Sleep Paralysis | 2020 | Review | |
| My Dream, My Rules: Can Lucid Dreaming Treat Nightmares? | 2019 | Review | |
| Dream Recall: State or Trait Variable? Part I: Model, Theories, Methodology and Trait Factors | 1996 | Review |
Citations in the library
Cited by 11
- Factors of home dream recall: a structural equation model Journal of Sleep Research May 12, 2003
- Dream Recall: State or Trait Variable? Part I: Model, Theories, Methodology and Trait Factors Imagination, Cognition and Personality October 1, 1996
- Experimental Research on Dreaming: State of the Art and Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives Frontiers in Psychology 2011
- A Novel Approach to Dream Content Analysis Reveals Links Between Learning-Related Dream Incorporation and Cognitive Abilities Frontiers in Psychology August 6, 2018
- Patterns of Hemispheric Lateralization in Dream Recallers and Non-Dream Recallers International Journal of Neuroscience 1993
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