Dreaming and the default network: A review, synthesis, and counterintuitive research proposal

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 342-353

  Domhoff, G William ^a   Fox, Kieran C R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Default network; Dreaming; EEG fMRI; Mind wandering; Sleep onset process

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DREAMING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; DREAM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THETA RHYTHM;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DREAMS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEUROIMAGING; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84923291482     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.01.019     Document Type: Review

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