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Volitional components of consciousness vary across wakefulness, dreaming and lucid dreaming

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Consciousness is a multifaceted concept; its different aspects vary across species, vigilance states or health conditions. While basal aspects of consciousness like perceptions and emotions are present in many states and species, higher-order aspects ...
Martin eDresler   +7 more
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Lucid Dreaming Brain Network Based on Tholey’s 7 Klartraum Criteria

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Lucid dreaming refers to a dream state characterized by the dreamers’ awareness of being in a dream and being able to volitionally control its content.
Brigitte Holzinger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inanimate Alice: The Story of the Series and its Impact in Portugal

open access: yesMatLit, 2018
A team from the University of Coimbra is partnering with the producers of Inanimate Alice to present a distinctive vision of interactive storytelling in education. In this article, we will discuss the origins of the series, the vision of the creators and
Ana Maria Machado   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sosa’s Responses to Dreaming Skepticism

open access: yesCrítica, 2019
Ernest Sosa has proposed two different ways to respond to dreaming skepticism. In this paper I argue that Sosa's first response —which centers on holding that we have no beliefs in dreams— does not appear to be successful against (what we have called ...
Claudia Lorena García
doaj   +1 more source

Dreaming in NREM Sleep: A High-Density EEG Study of Slow Waves and Spindles

open access: yesJournal of Neuroscience, 2018
Dreaming can occur in both rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM) sleep. We recently showed that in both REM and NREM sleep, dreaming is associated with local decreases in slow wave activity (SWA) in posterior brain regions. To expand these findings,
F. Siclari   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dreaming in Urbach-Wiethe patients the effect of amygdala damage on dreaming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.As it stands, there is a paucity of literature looking at the effect of damaged amygdalae on dreaming and dream content.
Koopowitz, Sheri
core   +1 more source

Do dreams protect sleep? Testing the Freudian hypothesis of the function of dreams [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Includes bibliographical references.A review of the literature indicates that a physiological function for dreaming has not yet been empirically established.
Cameron-Dow, Catherine
core   +1 more source

Dreaming, Mind-Wandering, and Hypnotic Dreams

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurology, 2020
Hobson's AIM theory offers a general framework for thinking about states of consciousness like wakefulness, REM dreaming and NREM mentations in terms of a state space defined by the dimensions of the level of brain activity, the source of input, and the ...
Peter Fazekas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning Real-World Robot Policies by Dreaming [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, 2018
Learning to control robots directly based on images is a primary challenge in robotics. However, many existing reinforcement learning approaches require iteratively obtaining millions of robot samples to learn a policy, which can take significant time ...
A. Piergiovanni, Alan Wu, M. Ryoo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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