unknown at dl.ac.uk wrote:
: >My daughter is planing to do a science project on learning while you
: >sleep and needs to find some published references. Does anyone know of any?
: Maybe you would like to check out some papers from Crick (yeah Francis Crick)
: and Mitchison on learning (by unlearning...) and dreaming (REM sleep).
: Here are the refs :
: The function of dream sleep
: Crick F., Mitchison G.
: Nature, jul. 1983;304:111-114
: REM sleep and neural nets
: Crick F., Mitchison G.
: Journal of Mind and Behavior, 1986;7(2-3):99-120
There was also a rather interesting review in the journal _Psychological
Science_, which covered this and other more weird than scientific
things.
Sorry for the 'sloppy reference', but there are only 6 volumes, hence 24
issues out. I will look to see if I can narrow it down a bit.
Enjoy,
jmp.
: Have fun.
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