I follow Peter Suber's Open Access News closely because he is indefatigable reporting what is happening about opening up access to resources on the Internet. This particular item caught my attention because I used to do sleep/dream and psychophysiological research . Among the articles available, I was especially interested in Tore Nielsen and Phillipe Stenstrom's "What are memory sources of dreaming?" The availability of resources such these from Nature, for both scientists and non-scientists, is priceless. _____JH
"A continuing obstacle to proving whether dreaming plays a causal role in memory consolidation is the difficulty subjects encounter in identifying the source memories of their dreams. Even though the assessment of feature binding, temporal factors and emotional structures all suggest novel methods for eliciting and assessing subject reports, future progress may ultimately depend upon whether subjects can be taught to identify and report the non-obvious minutiae of their dreams and memories with sufficient accuracy that the dreamwork mechanisms connecting the two can be discerned. In an era of high-resolution brain imaging, similarly high-resolution reports of dream imagery may be needed. To achieve this, the method of self-observation preferred by Freud, William James and others may yet prove to be among the most productive — particularly in a domain for which the object of study remains directly observable only by dreamers themselves."
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Another OA collection from Nature. Nature has posted a collection of OA articles about sleep.
Nature creates topical OA collections like this from time to time, in partnership with a sponsor to cover its costs. But in the past, its sponsors have been for-profit companies with products related to the collection topic. This time its sponsor is the NIH. By noemail@noemail.org (Peter Suber). [Open Access News]
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