How the brain constructs dreams
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Deep inside the temporal lobe of the brain, the hippocampus has a central role in our ability to remember, imagine and dream.
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This suggests that dreaming and mental time travel are both part of a continuum of spontaneous, offline (re)constructive thought, generated across sleep and waking states.
“This suggests that rather than dreaming being a completely distinct phenomenon to mental time travel, they are both part of a continuum of spontaneous, offline (re)constructive thought, generated across sleep and waking states [199,202].”
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Is episodic-like memory <i>like</i> episodic memory?
Davies, J. R., & Clayton, N. S. (2024) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2023.0397 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
- Authors
- Wamsley, E. J.
- Affiliations
- Furman University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wamsley, Erin J
- ORCID
- Wamsley, Erin J
- Venue
- eLife
- Publisher
- eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
- Published
- 2020-06-08
- Volume
- 9
- ISSN
- 2050-084X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7279884
- OpenAlex
- W3033479661
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2022: 2
- FWCI
- 0.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- eLife (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- dreams, hippocampus, memory, imagination, temporal lobe
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Dreams, Hippocampus, Mental Recall
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