Volitional components of consciousness vary across wakefulness, dreaming, and lucid dreaming

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Dresler, Martin ^a   Eibl, Leandra ^a   Fischer, Christian F J ^a   Wehrle, Renate ^a   Spoormaker, Victor I ^a   Steiger, Axel ^a   Czisch, Michael ^a   Pawlowski, Marcel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Dreaming; Lucid; Metacognition; Sleep; Volition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891709000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00987     Document Type: Article

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