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*THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* What is a dream? Why do we dream?
How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the
starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the
role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human
history. An investigation on the grand scale, encompassing
literature, anthropology, religion, and science, it articulates the
essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they
functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our
earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave
paintings - where the author finds a key to humankind's first
dreams, which contributed to our capacity to perceive past and
future - to cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at
startling and revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in
human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that
contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry and psychology have made
into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning, before
revealing what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of
memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes
clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been
confirmed by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and
fascinating from first to last, The Oracle of Night gives us a
wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.
*THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* What is a dream? Why do we dream?
How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the
starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the
role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of human
history. An investigation on the grand scale, encompassing
literature, anthropology, religion, and science, it articulates the
essential place dreams occupy in human culture, and how they
functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our
earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave
paintings - where the author finds a key to humankind's first
dreams, which contributed to our capacity to perceive past and
future - to cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at
startling and revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in
human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that
contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry and psychology have made
into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning, before
revealing what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of
memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes
clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been
confirmed by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and
fascinating from first to last, The Oracle of Night gives us a
wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.
This book focuses on recent advances and future trends in the
methods and applications of technologies that are used in
neuroscience for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of
neurological diseases and conditions or for the improvement of
quality of life. The editors have assembled contributions from a
range of international experts, to bring together key topics in
neurotechnology, neuroengineering, and neurorehabilitation. The
book explores biomedical signal processing, neuroimaging
acquisition and analysis, computational intelligence, virtual and
augmented reality, biometrics, machine learning and neurorobotics,
human machine interaction, mobile apps and discusses ways in which
these neural technologies can be used as diagnostic tools, research
methods, treatment modalities, as well as in devices and apps in
everyday life. This cross-disciplinary topic is of particular
interest to researchers and professionals with a background in
neuroscience-related disciplines and neurotechnology, but also
touches on a wide range of other fields including biomedical
engineering, AI, medicine, healthcare, security and industry, among
others.
How do brains learn? Expression of a plasticity-related immediate
early gene (IEG) was mapped to investigate the neural mechanisms of
song memorization in canaries and the role of sleep for memory
consolidation in rats. Chapter one shows that a song-responsive
forebrain nucleus carries a topographic representation of the
syllabic repertoire. This representation is tuned to natural
stimuli, can be modified by experience, and depends on attention.
Chapter two demonstrates that sleep can either increase or decrease
IEG expression in the brain, depending on whether the animal
experienced novel stimuli during the preceding waking period.
Chapter three presents an effort to understand what thoughts are.
It is hypothesized that a thought is a self-propagated wave of
electrical activity along a particular recursive trajectory in the
neuronal matrix. This hypothesis is used to build a plausible
historical narrative of the coevolution of brains and thoughts,
from their ancient origin in the Precambrian to the present.
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