The Brain as a Dream State Generator

Hobson, J. A., & McCarley, R. W. (1977). The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134(12), 1335-1348.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1977

DOI

10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335

Link

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Activation-synthesis hypothesis
  • The activation-synthesis hypothesis is Hobson and McCarley's historical proposal that internally generated activation during dreaming sleep supplies signals that the forebrain synthesizes into the perceptual and narrative form of a dream.

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