fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten) (02/12/91)
Recently I read a book about neural networks. This book contained a pointer to an article in Nature about the function of dream sleep (the ref is: The function of dream sleep, F.Crick and G.Mitchison, Nature 304, 111, 1983). In this article, a theory is postulated that explains REM sleep as a method the brain uses to remove parasitic modes in the forebrain. I wonder: Has there ever been a follow-up on that article ? Or has anyone ever seen another explanation of the function of REM sleep along these same lines ? -- Frans van Otten | Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam | fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl Technische en Maritieme Faculteit | or [backbone!]htsa!fransvo