What dreaming can reveal about cognitive and brain functions during sleep? A lexico-statistical analysis of dream reports

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 5-42

  Schwartz, Sophie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b University Medical Center   (Switzerland)

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