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Internally-Generated Activity, Non-Episodic Memory, and Emotional Salience in Sleep (2000)
James A. Bednar
(1) Substituting (as Solms does) forebrain for brainstem in the search for a dream controller'' is counterproductive, since a distributed system need have no single controller. (2) Evidence against episodic memory consolidation does not show that REM sleep has no role in other types of memory, contra Vertes & Eastman. (3) A generalization of Revonsuo's threat simulation" model in reverse is more plausible and is empirically testable. [If you have access to it, it is easiest to follow the
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences
S. Harnad and E. Pace-Schott and M. Blagrove and M. Solms (Eds.) (2000), pp. 119-120. Cambridge University Press. Commentary on the 'Sleep and Dreaming' issue..
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@InCollection{bednar:sdsar03, title={Internally-Generated Activity, Non-Episodic Memory, and Emotional Salience in Sleep}, author={James A. Bednar}, booktitle={Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations}, journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences}, editor={S. Harnad and E. Pace-Schott and M. Blagrove and M. Solms}, address={Cambridge, UK}, publisher={Cambridge University Press}, pages={119-120}, note={Commentary on the 'Sleep and Dreaming' issue.}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?bednar:bbs00", year={2000} }
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James A. Bednar
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Cognitive Science
Computational Neuroscience
Memory
Visual Cortex
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Neural Networks