Understanding of the evolved biological function of sleep has advanced considerably in the
past decade. However, no equivalent understanding of dreams has emerged. Contemporary …

Semantic representations in higher sensory cortices form the basis for robust, yet flexible
behavior. These representations are acquired over the course of development in an …

This article explores the notion that the brain is genetically endowed with an innate virtual
reality generator that–through experience-dependent plasticity–becomes a generative or …

Dreaming is a special topic to investigate with a scientific approach. Its main characteristic is
to be difficult to access and to observe which prevents many experimental approaches from …

How and why does the sleeping brain generate dreams? Though the question is old, a
paradigm shift is now occurring in the science of sleep and dreaming that is making room for …

Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming
while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually intense dream images as well as peculiar …

The activities of the mind and brain never cease. Although many of our waking hours are
spent processing sensory input and executing behavioral responses, moments of …

Converging evidence and new research methodologies from across the neurosciences
permit the neuroscientific study of the role of sleep in off-line memory reprocessing, as well …

The brain is a prediction machine. Yet the world is never entirely predictable, for any animal.
Unexpected events are surprising, and this typically evokes prediction error signatures in …

G. William Domhoff presents a new neurocognitive theory of dreams in his book The
Emergence of Dreaming. His theory stresses the similarities between dreaming and drifting …