Immediate and delayed incorporations of events into dreams: Further replication and implications for dream function

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 327-336

  Nielsen, Tore A ^a,b   Kuiken, Don ^c   Alain, Geneviève ^a,b   Stenstrom, Philippe ^a,b   Powell, Russell A ^d  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circaseptan process; Dream incorporation; Dreaming; Gender; Memory; Temporal factors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CIRCASEPTAN MORPHOLOGY; DREAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; DREAMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4444245226     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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