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Reverse learning
About: Reverse learning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 52 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2888 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors suggest that the automatically activated forebrain synthesizes the dream by comparing information generated in specific brain stem circuits with information stored in memory.
Abstract: Recent research in the neurobiology of dreaming sleep provides new evidence for possible structural and functional substrates of formal aspects of the dream process. The data suggest that dreaming sleep is physiologically determined and shaped by a brain stem neuronal mechanism that can be modeled physiologically and mathematically. Formal features of the generator processes with strong implications for dream theory include periodicity and automaticity of forebrain activation, suggesting a preprogrammed neural basis for dream mentation in sleep; intense and sporadic activation of brain stem sensorimotor circuits including reticular, oculomotor, and vestibular neurons, possibly determining spatiotemporal aspects of dream imagery; and shifts in transmitter ratios, possibly accounting for dream amnesia. The authors suggest that the automatically activated forebrain synthesizes the dream by comparing information generated in specific brain stem circuits with information stored in memory.
958 citations
TL;DR: It is proposed that the function of dream sleep is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in networks of cells in the cerebral cortex by a reverse learning mechanism, so that the trace in the brain of the unconscious dream is weakened, rather than strengthened, by the dream.
Abstract: We propose that the function of dream sleep (more properly rapid-eye movement or REM sleep) is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in networks of cells in the cerebral cortex. We postulate that this is done in REM sleep by a reverse learning mechanism (see also p. 158), so that the trace in the brain of the unconscious dream is weakened, rather than strengthened, by the dream.
888 citations
TL;DR: The theory advanced here emphasizes data that suggest that REM sleep may constitute a protoconscious state, providing a virtual reality model of the world that is of functional use to the development and maintenance of waking consciousness.
Abstract: Dreaming has fascinated and mystified humankind for ages: the bizarre and evanescent qualities of dreams have invited boundless speculation about their origin, meaning and purpose. For most of the twentieth century, scientific dream theories were mainly psychological. Since the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the neural underpinnings of dreaming have become increasingly well understood, and it is now possible to complement the details of these brain mechanisms with a theory of consciousness that is derived from the study of dreaming. The theory advanced here emphasizes data that suggest that REM sleep may constitute a protoconscious state, providing a virtual reality model of the world that is of functional use to the development and maintenance of waking consciousness.
622 citations
TL;DR: It is proposed that REM may allow the brain to be smaller than if REM were lacking, and that it explains in an unforced manner the condensation commonly found in dreams.
176 citations
TL;DR: Neuroimaging results show that REM sleep is characterized by a specific pattern of regional brain activity, and it is demonstrated that this heterogeneous distribution of brain activity during sleep explains many typical features in dreams.
175 citations
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| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2015 | 4 |