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Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1297-1301

  Malcolm Smith, Susan ^a   Solms, Mark ^a   Turnbull, Oliver ^b   Tredoux, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dream content; Evolutionary psychology; Function of dreaming; Threat Simulation Theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DREAMING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EVENT; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SURVIVAL; THREAT SIMULATION THEORY;

EID: 55749115611     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.06.001     Document Type: Note

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