REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness

By J. Allan Hobson. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Resilience in farm animals: biology, management, breeding and implications for animal welfare (2016, background): “The functions of these named emotions are a property of secondary consciousness (awareness of awareness), which is a human trait that appears to not be shared by farm animals (Hobson 2009).”
The cortisol awakening response: more than a measure of HPA axis function. (2010, background): “…between aminergic inhibitory neurons and cholinergic excitatory neurons form the basis of this flip-flop switching: the activity of aminergic neurons is highest during waking and is lowest during REM sleep, whereas the activity of cholinergic cells shows the reverse pattern (see Hobson, 2009).”
Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis (2020, background): “…in patients with frontal-lobe syndrome, neglect, multiple sclerosis, or schizophrenia and related to abnormal long-distance ﬁber tracts, as measured by diffusion tensor imaging (Del Cul et al., 2009; Pettersson-Yeo et al., 2011; Reuter et al., 2007, 2009; Thiebaut de Schotten et al., 2005).”
Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight (2017, background): “The second is the role of self-modeling, reflection, and sleep (Metzinger, 2003; Hobson, 2009).”
The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review (2012, background): “Emotion generation during sleep is entirely driven by internal information, being unaffected by operations subserving the interaction with the external environment (Hobson 1999).”
The Avatars in the Machine : Dreaming as a Simulation of Social Reality (2015, background): “In a similar vein, Hobson (2009) proposed that REM sleep may constitute a “protoconscious” state, preparing the organism for waking conscious experiences.”
The Conscious Id (2013, background): “Indeed, at a most basic level, it is this system that controls (through neuromodulatory efferents) the basic cycles of conscious level associated with sleeping and waking (Hobson, 2009).”