Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: A neuroimaging view

Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: a neuroimaging view.

Dream is a state of consciousness characterized by internally-generated sensory, cognitive and emotional experiences occurring during sleep. Dream reports tend to be particularly abundant, with complex, emotional, and perceptually vivid experiences after awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is why our current knowledge of the cerebral correlates of dreaming, mainly derives from ...

Dreaming Is a Sleep Related Cognitive Activ- Ity Characterized by Multisensory Imagery, Emotional Arousal and Apparent

1629 DREAMING IS A SLEEP RELATED COGNITIVE ACTIVITY CHARACTERIZED BY MULTISENSORY IMAGERY, EMOTIONAL AROUSAL AND APPARENT SPEECH AND motor activity. For some REM sleep parasomnias, most notably REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD),1–3 the emotional, verbal, or motor components of dreaming may be enacted behaviorally and form part of the disorder’s clinical symptomatology. These behaviors are disti...

Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes.

Introduction Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes Changes in pupil diameter provide a unique window on brain activity. We would like to thank Dr John Andreassi, editor of the International Journal of Psychophysiology, for the opportunity to be guest editors of this special issue on pupillometric studies. This volume is an expansion of the symposium 'Pupillometry and Cogni...

Dreaming Cogniton and Acculturation Processes

The author suggests that dreaming cognition be modeled as reflecting dynamic, integrative, culturallysensitive, and historically holistic methods. The author conceptualizes six models of dreaming cognition. 1) Freudian dreaming model, 2) Jungian analytic model, 3) neurocognitive or neurophysiological dreaming model, 4) acculturative dreaming brain model (Sang Bok Lee, 2005: ”Lee Acculturation D...

Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Persecutory Delusions