G William Domhoff

The Emergence of Dreaming

Mind-Wandering, Embodied Simulation, and the Default Network

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new neurocognitive theory documents the unexpected similarities of dreaming to waking thought, demonstrates personal psychological meaning can be found in a majority of dreams reports, has a strong developmental psychology dimension, pinpoints the neural substrate for dreaming, and shows it is very unlikely that dreaming has any adaptive function.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780190673420
• ISBN-10: 0190673427
• Artikelnr.: 48915089

Autorenporträt

G. William Domhoff, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published numerous articles on dreams in academic journals, as well as three previous books: The Mystique of Dreams: The Search For Utopia Through Senoi Dream Theory (1985), Finding Meaning in Dreams: A Quantitative Approach (1996), and The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Dream Reports From Sleep Laboratories
CHAPTER 2 Dream Reports Collected in Non-Laboratory Settings
CHAPTER 3 Findings From Studies Of Individual Dream Series
CHAPTER 4 The Emergence of Dreaming in Children and Adolescents
CHAPTER 5 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Dreaming
CHAPTER 6 The Activation-Synthesis Theory of Dreaming
CHAPTER 7 The Failed Freudian Revival
CHAPTER 8 Does Dreaming Have Any Adaptive Function(s)?
CHAPTER 9 A Promising Agenda
Acknowledgements
REFERENCES
INDEX