Dreams, mnemonics, and tuning for criticality.

Barak Pearlmutter; Conor J Houghton

doi:10.1017/S0140525X13001404

Dreams, mnemonics, and tuning for criticality.

Barak Pearlmutter, Conor J Houghton

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According to the tuning-for-criticality theory, the essential role of sleep is to protect the brain from super-critical behaviour. Here we argue that this protective role determines the content of dreams and any apparent relationship to the art of memory is secondary to this.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	625-626
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13001404
Publication status	Published - 2013

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