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Inclusive versus exclusive approaches to sleep and dream research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Robert Stickgold
Robert Stickgold
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 rstickgold@hms.harvard.edu
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Abstract

By assuming that REM sleep either plays a critical role in all memory consolidation or no role in any, Vertes & Eastman have chosen to reject, rather than explain, robust experimental findings of a role for sleep in memory and learning. In contrast, Nielsen has attempted to integrate conflicting findings in the dispute over REM versus NREM mentation. Researchers must trust the data more and the theories less, and build integrative rather than exclusionary models if they hope to resolve these knotty problems effectively.

[Nielsen; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 1011 - 1013
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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