![]() ![]() Walter seems particularly fascinated with the importance of emotion in dreaming and memory processing, bringing to light research that begins to point the way. ![]() It is clear that an enthusiast wrote this book although Walter well justifies his enthusiasm and acknowledges some dissenting arguments, such as the fact that depressed persons taking REM-inhibiting antidepressants do not show profound learning or memory deficits. Walter cites most of the relevant work, knitting together as coherent a story as can be had at this time. Walter proffers a view on which most learning and memory researchers agree: that many different lines of evidence, from human clinical cases to controlled animal experiments, strongly indicate that the REM sleep state or its component traits are involved in memory consolidation and that NREM sleep, especially the spindles of stage 2 and slow waves of stage 4, is also involved. For 40 years a handful of researchers advanced sleep and memory until the field began to grow in earnest. underwent his historic memory-altering bilateral hippocampal resection, and Aserinsky and Kleitman discovered REM sleep. Experts will pick up tidbits of information they did not know or had not put together, such as the fact that two big events that seeded the field of sleep and memory occurred the same year, 1953, when patient H. TIM WALTER OFFERS A CONCISE, DIGESTIBLE SYNTHESIS OF DECADES OF WORK ON SLEEP AND MEMORY, MAKING REM ILLUMINATION A MUST-READ FOR those in the field and those interested in it. ![]()
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