The Southern literary journal
March 1, 2001
Mark Canada
7 citations
Phrenology is no longer to be laughed at," Edgar Allan Poe wrote in an 1836 review of Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology."It is no longer laughed at by men of common understanding.It has assumed the majesty of science; and, as a science, ranks among the most important which can engage the attention of thinking beings" (Essays and Reviews 329).Poe, of course, counted himself among...
Medical Hypotheses
March 2001
W S Von Arx
Since the cerebral cortex is deeply infolded (to provide a large surface area) and the celerity of neuropropagation across Golgi's layer 1 (the 'molecular feltwork' of the outer brain) has the slowest rate possible in living tissue, we suggest that consciousness, sentience and cognition are wave interference phenomena related to electroencephalographic (EEG) 'rhythms' that appear and disappear...
Dreaming
March 1, 2001
G. William Domhoff
99 citations
Discoveries in three distinct areas of dream research make it possible to suggest the outlines of a new neurocognitive theory of dreaming. The first relevant findings come from assessments of patients with brain injuries, which show that lesions in different areas have differential effects on dreaming and thereby imply the contours of the neural network necessary for dreaming. The second set of...
Sleep
March 1, 2001
G W Baylor, C Cavallero
The data from three previously published studies on the memory sources of dreams, representing nine different moments of awakening throughout the night, are re-examined. In the original studies, elicited reports were recorded and segmented online into thematic units. The segmented reports were played back to Ss who were asked to identify memory sources or to associate to each segment. Memory...
Dreaming
March 1, 2001
Montague Ullman
7 citations
Social as well as personal referents appear in dreams and, when recognized as such, provide insight into how unresolved social issues seep into the personal domain at an unconscious level. Dream-sharing groups (because of the time available and other factors) offer a particularly favorable opportunity to observe this interplay. The truth-telling nature of dreaming consciousness not only exposes...
Anthropology of Consciousness
March 1, 2001
Tara W. Lumpkin
Perceptual diversity allows human beings to access knowledge through a variety of perceptual processes, rather than merely through everyday waking reality. Many of these perceptual processes are transrational altered states of consciousness (meditation, trance, dreams, imagination) and are not considered valid processes for accessing knowledge by science (which is based primarily upon...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2001
Piercarla Cicogna, Marino Bosinelli
Two aspects of consciousness are first considered: consciousness as awareness (phenomenological meaning) and consciousness as strategic control (functional meaning). As to awareness, three types can be distinguished: first, awareness as the phenomenal experiences of objects and events; second, awareness as meta-awareness, i.e., the awareness of mental life itself; third, awareness as...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2000
Michael Schredl
10 citations
All five target articles are of high quality and very stimulating for the field. Several factors such as dream report length and NREM/REM differences, may be affected by the waking process (transition from sleep to wakefulness) and the recall process. It is helpful to distinguish between a model for REM sleep regulation and a physiological model for dreaming. A third model accounting for...
Consciousness and Cognition
December 2000
R Fosse
This study tested the two main neurocognitive models of dreaming by using cognitive data elicited from REM sleep in normals and narcoleptics. The two models were the "activation-only" view which holds that, in the context of sleep, overall activation of the brain is sufficient for consciousness to proceed in the manner of dreaming (e.g., Antrobus, 1991; Foulkes, 1993; Vogel, 1978); and the...
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 1, 2000
Barbara E. Jones
8 citations
Not at all self-evident, the so-called isomorphisms between the phenomenology and physiology of dreams have been interpreted by Hobson et al. in an arbitrary manner to state that dreams are stimulated by chaotic brainstem stimulation (an assumption also adopted by Vertes & Eastman). I argue that this stimulation is not chaotic at all; nor does it occur in the absence of control from the...