The emergence of dreaming : mind-wandering, embodied simulation, and the default network / G. William Domhoff.

The emergence of dreaming : mind-wandering, embodied simulation, and the default network / G. William Domhoff.

9780190673444 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

BF1078 .D576 2017

154.63

This work presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams that documents the similarities of dreaming to waking thought, demonstrates that personal psychological meaning can be found in a majority of dream reports, has a strong developmental dimension based on excellent longitudinal and cross-sectional studies carried out in sleep labs with children ages 3-15, locates the neural substrate for dreaming in the same brain network active during mind-wandering and daydreaming, and marshals the evidence that shows it is very unlikely that dreaming has any adaptive function.

This work presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams that documents the similarities of dreaming to waking thought, demonstrates that personal psychological meaning can be found in a majority of dream reports, has a strong developmental dimension based on excellent longitudinal and cross-sectional studies carried out in sleep labs with children ages 3-15, locates the neural substrate for dreaming in the same brain network active during mind-wandering and daydreaming, and marshals the evidence that shows it is very unlikely that dreaming has any adaptive function.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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