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Dreaming is not controlled by hippocampal mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2013

Mark Solms
Mark Solms*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa. mark.solms@uct.ac.za
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Abstract

Links with the Humanities are to be welcomed, but they cannot be exempted from normal scientific criteria. Any hypothesis regarding the function of dreams that is premised on rapid eye movement (REM)/dream isomorphism is unsupportable on empirical grounds. Llewellyn's hypothesis has the further problem of counter-evidence in respect of its claim that dreaming relies upon hippocampal functions. The hypothesis also lacks face validity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 629
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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