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Needed: A new theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

G. William Domhoff
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 domhoff@cats.ucsc.edu

Abstract

Dream content is more coherent, consistent over time, and continuous with waking emotional concerns than most brainstem-driven theories of dreaming allow, but dreaming probably has no adaptive function. A new neurocognitive perspective focusing on the forebrain system of dream generation should begin with the findings on dream content in adults and the developmental nature of dreaming in children.

[Hobson et al.; Nielsen; Revonsuo; Solms; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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