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Mnemonic expertise during wakefulness and sleep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2013

Martin Dresler  and
Boris N. Konrad
Martin Dresler
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Endocrinology of Sleep, D-80804 Munich, Germany. dresler@mpipsykl.mpg.de Stanford University School of Medicine, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Boris N. Konrad
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, D-80804 Munich, Germany. konrad@mpipsykl.mpg.de
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Abstract

We studied the world's most distinguished experts in the use of mnemonic techniques: the top participants of the World Memory Championships. They neither feel the use of mnemonics to be dreamlike, nor does their REM sleep differ from mnemonic-naive control subjects. Besides these empirical data, also theoretical considerations contradict an isomorphism between features of REM sleep dreaming and mnemonic principles.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 616 - 617
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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