The function of dream sleep

By F. Crick, Graeme J. Mitchison. 1983

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How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Network (2021, background): “The idea that sleep is used to keep apart representations that should not be confused is not new [Crick and Mitchison, 1983].”
Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “Specifically, in Crick and Mitchison (1983) attractors are randomly chosen for replay, facilitating the unlearning of them.”
About sleep's role in memory. (2013, background): “If the emotional tone of a memory is considered an “unwanted activation,” then the “sleep to forget sleep to remember” (SFSR) hypothesis recently proposed by Walker and van der Helm (1282, 1284) bears some similarities with the ideas about REM sleep by Crick and Mitchison.”
The memory function of sleep (2010, background): “, with practically no evidence for the opposite effect (sleep promoting forgetting”
Sleep Is for Forgetting (2017, background): “It is what Crick and Mitchison (1983) had in mind when they hypothesized that REM sleep was for forgetting useless tidbits of information learned throughout the day that, if not eliminated, would soon saturate the memory synaptic network with junk.”
Catastrophic Forgetting and the Pseudorehearsal Solution in Hopfield-type Networks (1998, background): “We extend the pseudorehearsal solution of Robins (1995) enabling it to work in this attractor network, and compare the results with the unlearning procedure proposed by Crick and Mitchison (1983).”
The philosophy of dreaming and self-consciousness: What happens to the experiential subject during the dream state? (2007, background): “…chains of phenomenal simulations, and even though the dreamer remains oblivious to their hallucinatory character (Metzinger 1993, p. 149), many aspects of dream content do not seem to be the mere result of an “internal randomisator”(Crick and Mitchison 1983, Hobson and McCarley 1977, Hobson 1988).”
The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram? (2004, background): “This is echoed in a more recent hypothesis on the relevance of dream sleep to consolidation (Crick & Mitchison 1983). or awake (Brashers-Krug et al. 1996), is still within the accepted time window of synaptic consolidation.”
Copying and Evolution of Neuronal Topology (2008, background): “As discussed by Francis Crick, this may be one of the functions of deep sleep [39, 48 ].”
Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, background): “Moreover, it has long been suggested that dreaming may have a related function (here using “reverse” learning over “fictional” input to eliminate spurious relationships identified by the brain, Crick & Mitchison 1983; see Hinton & Sejnowki 1986, for a closely related computational model).”
The molecular and systems biology of memory. (2014, unknown): “How does consolidation occur in sleep? Extending earlier proposals that sleep had evolved to maintain homeostasis (Crick and Mitchison, 1983; Borbély and Achermann, 1999), Tononi and Cirelli (2006) posited that plastic processes during wakefulness result in a net widespread increase in synaptic stre”
Catastrophic forgetting in simple networks: an analysis of the pseudorehearsal solution. (1999, methodology): “§ Although not directly connected to the catastrophic learning literature, the ‘unlearning’ method [8, 3 , 23, 2, 22] addresses the same issues of capacity and sequential learning tasks in Hopfield networks.”
The cognitive neuroscience of sleep: neuronal systems, consciousness and learning (2002, background): “These findings have led many to attribute a developmental role to infant sleep states in mammal”
State-dependent spike timing relationships between hippocampal and prefrontal circuits during sleep (2009, background): “, 1995) as well as reorganization of the memory traces themselves, driven by intrinsic activity rather than external input (Lubenov and Siapas, 2008; Crick and Mitchison, 1983; Hopfield et al., 1983; Ackley et al., 1985).”
Sequential learning in neural networks: A review and a discussion of pseudorehearsal based methods (2004, unknown): “This problem has been addressed in the literature by a method known as “unlearning”, ﬁrst proposed in [10,33], and extended in other studies such as [9,67,68].”
The restless engram: consolidations never end. (2012, background): “An influential overall idea is that sleep evolved to maintain homeostasis (Crick & Mitchison 1983, Borbely & Achermann 1999, Tononi & Cirelli 2006).”