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Keats's Dreaming Imagination
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Dreaming in Urbach-Wiethe patients the effect of amygdala damage on dreaming
… looking at the effect of damaged amygdalae on dreaming and dream content. Of the many functions, the amygdala is heavily involved in processing emotional stimuli and fear conditioning. In Revonsuo’s threat simulation theory (TST), the amygdala plays an important role in the threat simulation …
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Daughters of the Dreaming
This thesis advances a new look and hopefully a new understanding of a complex of issues often glossed 'the problem of women'. My ethnographic focus is the ritual life of Aboriginal women in Central Australia during the late 1970's, while my analysis raises the conceptual issue of how we should …
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Daughters of the Dreaming
This thesis advances a new look and hopefully a new understanding of a complex of issues often glossed 'the problem of women'. My ethnographic focus is the ritual life of Aboriginal women in Central Australia during the late 1970's, while my analysis raises the conceptual issue of how we should …
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Brain mechanisms of dreaming
… the neuropsychological understanding of dreaming and the methodological issues of neuroanatomical investigation.
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The inconsistent cartesian dreaming argument
A premise of the Cartesian Dreaming Argument is the claim that dreams are phenomenologically indistinguishable from waking experiences. My thesis focuses on how the skeptic arrives at this claim, and I argue that the claim is inconsistent with the premises used to derive it. This inconsistency runs …
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In the Light Beyond Dreaming
… 2006 Environmental Studies In the Light Beyond Dreaming Chairperson: Phil Condon The Gallatin Canyon of south-central Montana is a landscape of varied terrain and mixed ownership, with a community of people that represent diverse attitudes towards the land. In its diversity, the region provokes …
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In the Light Beyond Dreaming
… 2006 Environmental Studies In the Light Beyond Dreaming Chairperson: Phil Condon The Gallatin Canyon of south-central Montana is a landscape of varied terrain and mixed ownership, with a community of people that represent diverse attitudes towards the land. In its diversity, the region provokes …
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Dreaming and the dorsolateral frontal lobes : towards a better understanding of the mechanism of dreaming
… prefrontal cortex is deactivated during dreaming, and provide support for the theory that deactivation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during sleep accounts for many of the formal features of dreams.
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Building Maze Solutions with Computational Dreaming
… nearly perfectly scalable. Computational dreaming (CD) is inspired by the structure and dreaming process of the human brain. It examines previously observed input data during a 'dream phase' and is able to develop and select a simplified model to use during the day phase of computation. …
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Malleable Contextual Partitioning and Computational Dreaming
… we also observe the critical role of sleep and dreaming in the lives of all intelligent beings. Based on the importance of dream sleep in memory consolidation, we propose that it is also responsible for contextual reorganization. We target mobile device applications that can be personalized to …
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EXPLORING DREAMING CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN ENACTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
… thesis discusses an enactivist interpretation of dreaming consciousness and compares it with the behaviorist and functionalist interpretations of dreams. The major argument is: enactivism can answer the challenge from dreams and propose a more advantageous account of dreaming experiences than …
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Testing Revonsuo's Threat simulation theory of dreaming
Revonsuo's Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming asserts that dreaming was selected during human evolution because it has the adaptive function of providing a threat-free context in which threat perception and avoidance can be rehearsed. This study aimed to test the prediction that the threat …
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The role of the amygdala in dreaming
… strongly implicated the basolateral amygdala in dreaming (e.g. Maquet et al., 1996). Various neuropsychological dream theorists (Domhoff, 2001; Hobson, Pace-Schott & Stickgold, 2000; Revonsuo, 2000) propose central roles for the amygdala in dreaming (particularly in the generation of dream …
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The Role of Dreaming in Affect Regulation
… and often do not consider the contribution of dreaming mentation to affect regulatory processes. The aim of this study was to investigate whether dreaming regulates affect by examining the change in affect within dreams and between dreams elicited during different timepoints in the night. The …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
<p>Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. Home to more psychoanalysts per capita than any other country, …
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