Dreaming and the self-organizing brain

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4-11

  Kahn, David ^b   Krippner, Stanley ^b   Combs, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^b NONE

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