PSYC 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Autobiographical Memory, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lucid Dream
21 Jan 2016
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Rare state of sleep, that comprises states of both sleep and waking. People become aware of their dreaming state, have full access to. Didn"t find reliable differences between lucid dreaming and rem. However, analysis of eeg power in 40hz frequency showed shifting. Overall decreased dream recall frequency as age increases. Largest decline found for lucid dream frequency. Found brain activity similar to the attention network. The method that is preferred in science. Task a process a brain area a. Inference that process a depends on brain area a. Inferring that because brain area a was activated, process a occurred. This is the holy grail : we want to be able to guess what process occurred based on what brain area was active. Brain network that is activated when people are doing nothing . Hard to use forward inference because giving the task of doing nothing is by default, doing something.
