Bottom-up or top-down in dream neuroscience? A top-down critique of two bottom-up studies

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 168-171

  Foulkes, David ^a   Domhoff, G William ^b  

^a Santa Cruz ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up vs. top down; Dreaming; Neurocognition; Sensory motor impairments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; DREAM; DREAMING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STANDARDS;

DREAMS; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84901745927     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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