In recent years, there has been increased attention toward the importance of sleep and its
essential role in athletic performance, cognition, health, and mental well-being. Many of …

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

A fundamental feature of human memory is the propensity for beneficial changes in
information storage after initial encoding. Recent research findings favor the possibility that …

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience
in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary …

Consolidation makes it possible for memories of our daily experiences to be stored in an
enduring way. We propose that memory consolidation depends on the covert reactivation of …

The mesolimbic dopaminergic system (ML-DA) allows adapted interactions with the
environment and is therefore of critical significance for the individual's survival. The ML-DA …

The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course"
Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science …

Several studies have tried to identify the neurobiological bases of dream experiences,
nevertheless some questions are still at the centre of the debate. Here, we summarise the …

Disorders of arousal (DOA) is an umbrella term initially covering classical sleepwalking,
sleep terrors, and confusional arousals, and now including a wider spectrum of specialised …

Consciousness is often said to disappear in deep, dreamless sleep. We argue that this
assumption is oversimplified. Unless dreamless sleep is defined as unconscious from the …