Joe Lau's wiki: Main/Sleep

Readings

• Stickgold (2001) Sleep, learning, and Dreams: Off-line Memory Reprocessing. Science Vol. 294.
• Hobson (2002) Dreaming - An Introduction to the Science of Sleep OUP.
• The Scientific Study of Dreams, G. William Domhoff

REM sleep

• It was thought that dreaming is restricted to REM sleep.
• But dreams occur also during sleep onset and stage 2 non-REM sleep near morning.
• REM plays a critical role in learning - consolidation of procedural but not declarative memory.

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